Abstract
Differences in Characteristics Between Suicide Victims who Left Notes or not
Kuwabara H~~Shioiri T~~et al
To examines whether suicide victims who wrote notes differ from those who did not, the authors investigated the characteristics of a sample of more than 5000 Japanese suicides using multiple logistic regression analysis. The mean incidence of note writers was 30.1%. Note writers had the following characteristics: higher proportion of females, those living alone, & suicide by more lethal methods. Non-note writers’ suicides seemed to be precipitated by physical illness, psychiatric disorder, &/or history of psychiatric disorders. (25 refs.)