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Groundbreaking new research shows Australia’s male suicide epidemic is worse than previously thought, with at-risk behaviour among blokes up to three times higher than current estimates indicate.
Mental health organisation Beyond Blue has released a world-first study investigating ambulance call-outs to men experiencing acute mental health issues, self-harm and suicidal instances.
And it highlights an urgent need for hospital treatment reform with current practices proving inadequate, experts warn.
The study, titled Beyond the Emergency, found there were a staggering 30,197 ambulance attendances for men who had attempted suicide or had suicidal thoughts between June 2015 and July 2016.
But existing data, taken from hospital emergency department presentation statistics, identified about 10,000 cases in the same period because of the way patients were classified.
“This research tells us that suicide-related presentations to our health services by men triple when measured by ambulance data rather than hospital data alone. It tells us that what we know about male suicide is just the tip of the iceberg,” Beyond Blue chair Julia Gillard said.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/h...s/news-story/fd87cbf804d417826addc9ea5cee71d1
Mental health organisation Beyond Blue has released a world-first study investigating ambulance call-outs to men experiencing acute mental health issues, self-harm and suicidal instances.
And it highlights an urgent need for hospital treatment reform with current practices proving inadequate, experts warn.
The study, titled Beyond the Emergency, found there were a staggering 30,197 ambulance attendances for men who had attempted suicide or had suicidal thoughts between June 2015 and July 2016.
But existing data, taken from hospital emergency department presentation statistics, identified about 10,000 cases in the same period because of the way patients were classified.
“This research tells us that suicide-related presentations to our health services by men triple when measured by ambulance data rather than hospital data alone. It tells us that what we know about male suicide is just the tip of the iceberg,” Beyond Blue chair Julia Gillard said.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/h...s/news-story/fd87cbf804d417826addc9ea5cee71d1
