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Suicide in Flanders, Belgium, after terrorist attacks
- Source :
- Psychology, Health & Medicine. 27:1507-1513
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- Little is known about the association between terrorism and suicide. This study investigates suicide numbers in Flanders, Belgium before and after the Paris-attacks (13/11/2015) and Brussels-attacks (22/03/2016). Population mortality data for suicide were gathered from the Agency for healthcare. Suicides in Flanders, Belgium, were higher after both attacks. The increase was higher after the Paris-attacks, compared to the attacks in Brussels, Belgium. The effect of a close-by, but still foreign attack (the Paris-attacks in France) on suicide numbers is larger than that of an attack inside the country (the Brussels-attacks), possibly due to a difference in threat experience and coping possibilities.
- Subjects :
- Coping (psychology)
education.field_of_study
Population
030227 psychiatry
Suicide
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
0302 clinical medicine
Belgium
Mortality data
Political science
Adaptation, Psychological
Agency (sociology)
Terrorism
Humans
France
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Applied Psychology
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653966 and 13548506
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychology, Health & Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a10f29f4936784fe4eeb12990558bd54