EPIDEMOLOGY OF POLICE SUICIDE

本计画提出改善警察自杀死亡之效度 分类和检查警察自杀的相关性。Vena等人， 1986年，市政工人队伍将被更新并用作警察。 自杀比较的基础，而不是一般的人口。的评估 “官方”自杀率的准确性和比较将是 对一个警察团体和另外两个市政工人团体进行了表演。死亡 三个比较组中的分类将具有以下特征 为确定他们是真正的自杀还是非自杀而采取的措施： (1)Rosenberg等人，04 The Dog（1988） （2）三名法医的判决，他们不会有 （三）对死者职业或者死因的认识;（四）记录 死亡证明、法医报告、尸检报告， 警方记录 对确定的真实自杀数据的分析将包括敏感性， 特异性和预测价值的警察自杀率相比， 另外两个市政工人团体。假设警察认为 一般来说，与其他工人群体相比，他们的敏感性和特异性较低。 一个可推广的警察敏感度比例公式将是 这可能有助于其他警察部门进行比较 自杀研究除了提高自杀率的准确性， 一项研究将列出警方具体的自杀相关性， 历史数据和记录。

This project proposes to improve the validity of police suicide death classifications and examine correlates of police suicide. Vena's, et al., (1986) municipal worker cohort will be updated and utilized as a police suicide comparison base instead of the general population. An assessment of the accuracy and comparison of "official" suicide rates will be performed on a police group and two other municipal worker groups. Death classifications in the three comparison groups will have the following measures applied to determine if they are true suicides or non-suicides: (1) Rosenberg's, et al., (1988) Operational Criteria for the Determination of Suicide; (2) Judgements of three medical examiners who will not have knowledge of the decedent's occupation or cause of death; and (3) records of death certificates, medical examiner's reports, autopsy reports, and police records. Analysis of determined true suicide data will include sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of police suicide rates as compared to the two other municipal worker groups. The hypothesis is that police rates are generally less sensitive and specific than other worker groups. A generalizable police sensitivity proportion formulation will be developed which may be useful for comparison purpose in other police suicide studies. In addition to improving suicide rate accuracy, this study will tabulate police specific suicide correlates from written historical data and records.