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October 2006, Vol 96, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1752-1755
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.075812

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Changing Times: A Longitudinal Analysis of International Firearm Suicide Data

Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, PhD, Martin Killias, PhD, Urs Hepp, MD, Erika Gadola, MA, Matthias Bopp, PhD, Christoph Lauber, MD, Ulrich Schnyder, MD, Felix Gutzwiller, MD, DrPH and Wulf Rössler, MD, MA

Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Erika Gadola, Christoph Lauber, and Wulf Rössler are with the Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Matthias Bopp, and Felix Gutzwiller are with the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Martin Killias is with the School of Forensic Science and Criminology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Urs Hepp and Ulrich Schnyder are with the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, PhD, Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Militärstr. 8, CH-8004 Zürich, Switzerland (e-mail: vajdacic{at}spd.unizh.ch).

We investigated changes in the proportion of firearm suicides in Western countries since the 1980s and the relation of these changes to the change in the proportion of households owning firearms. Several countries had an obvious decline in firearm suicides: Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Multilevel modeling of longitudinal data confirmed the effect of the proportion of households owning firearms. Legislation and regulatory measures reducing the availability of firearms in private households can distinctly strengthen the prevention of firearm suicides.




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