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Pilot investigation of a suicide cluster in Bridgend, South Wales, UK 2007-08

Philip Jones, Steve Platt, Michael Dennis, Peter Huxley, Jonathan Scourfield, Keith Lloyd

Swansea University Author: Philip Jones

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In 2007/2008 a cluster of suicides occurred among young people living in the Bridgend area, South Wales. The full extent of this cluster is not yet defined as there are significant challenges in the definition of a cluster. Nevertheless, it is likely that that there were at least 19 deaths over a 12...

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ISSN: 1000-6729
Published: Beijing Chinese Mental Health Journal 2011
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description In 2007/2008 a cluster of suicides occurred among young people living in the Bridgend area, South Wales. The full extent of this cluster is not yet defined as there are significant challenges in the definition of a cluster. Nevertheless, it is likely that that there were at least 19 deaths over a 12 month period. This cluster, thought to be one of the largest recorded world-wide, was widely reported by the international mass media. We conducted a preliminary assessment of factors associated with its initiation, maintenance and cessation. Using routinely collected data from multiple sources this project ash adopted a multidisciplinary and mixed methods approach to: delimit the boundaries of the cluster (stage 1); to identify influences on its development, maintenance and cessation (stage 2). Two techniques Risk Adjusted Hierarchical Spatial Clustering (Zeng et al 2005; de Smith et al 2009) and space time scan statistics (Kulldorff el al 2005) have been applied in stage 1, while stage 2 has relied on the collection, collation and secondary analysis of data which are routinely recorded for all probable suicides in Wales. Findings from both stages of the project will be presented at the symposium.
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