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Does gender explain the relationship between occupation and suicide? Findings from a meta-analytic study
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posted on 2016-07-01, 00:00 authored by Allison Milner, M S Spittal, J Pirkis, Tony LaMontagneTony LaMontagneThis report investigated whether suicide risk by occupational groups differed for males and females. We examined this using a sub-set of articles examined in a recent meta-analysis and stratified by gender. For certain occupational groups, males and females had a similar risk of suicide (the military, community service occupations, managers, and clerical workers). There was some indication of gender differences for other occupations (technicians, plant and machine operators and ship’s deck crew, craft and related trades workers, and professionals), although these did not reach statistical significance. These findings highlight the complexity of the relationship between occupation and suicide and suggest the possible role of a range of individual, work-related and social-environmental risk factors that may differ for males and females.
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Community mental health journalVolume
52Issue
5Pagination
568 - 573Publisher
SpringerLocation
New York, N.Y.Publisher DOI
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0010-3853eISSN
1573-2789Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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