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  • Psychiatry
  • Public Health
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Suicide notes offer valuable insights into motivations for suicide.
  • Limited research exists on suicide notes, leading to assumptions of static characteristics over time.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine changes in the characteristics of individuals leaving suicide notes over time.
  • To compare suicide note-leavers in Hong Kong in 1992 and 2000.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of suicide note-leaver characteristics.
  • Comparison of data from 1992 and 2000 in Hong Kong.
  • Involved 316 suicide note-leavers from the year 2000.

Main Results:

  • The proportion of suicide note-leavers increased from 20% in 1992 to 35% in 2000.
  • Note-leavers in 2000 were predominantly aged 25-59, employed, and without physical or psychiatric illness.
  • Charcoal-burning emerged as a prominent suicide method among note-leavers in 2000.

Conclusions:

  • The phenomenon of leaving suicide notes is not static and has evolved over an eight-year period.
  • Changes in suicide methods may correlate with the increase in suicide note prevalence.
  • The motivations behind leaving suicide notes may have shifted between 1992 and 2000.