Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis

Thomas Niederkrotenthaler; King-wa Fu; Paul S F Yip; Daniel Y T Fong; Steven Stack; Qijin Cheng; Jane Pirkis

doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200707

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Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis

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Thomas Niederkrotenthaler Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria PubMed articles Google scholar articles
King-wa Fu Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paul S F Yip Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Daniel Y T Fong School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Steven Stack Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USADepartment of Criminology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Qijin Cheng Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jane Pirkis Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Severingasse 9, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; thomas.niederkrotenthaler{at}meduniwien.ac.at

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Niederkrotenthaler T, Fu K, Yip PSF, et al

Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis

J Epidemiol Community Health 2012;66:1037-1042.

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Accepted March 15, 2012
First published April 21, 2012.

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