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The psychological autopsy approach to studying suicide is becoming an increasingly used research method. It presents considerable methodological problems. In order to assist future researchers in this field and to help readers assess reports of psychological autopsy studies the authors have reviewed these issues on the basis of their own experience and those of other workers. The areas covered include research design, identification of subjects, sources of information and the particular issues concerned with approaching relatives and other informants, choice and recruitment of controls, the difficulties of conducting psychological autopsy interviews with relatives, problems for interviewers, the selection of appropriate measures to obtain information, and achieving valid and reasonably reliable conclusions from diverse information sources.
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“In addition, there are several limitations inherent to the psychological autopsy approach,23–25 including issues relating to the choice (and selective non-response) of control subjects and the reliance on proxy reports—the latter being prone to recall bias and measurement error.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hawton, K. E., Appleby, L., Platt, S., Foster, T., Cooper, J., Malmberg, A., & Simkin, S.
- Affiliations
- Warneford Hospital (GB)
- Venue
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-09
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 269-276
- ISSN
- 0165-0327 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1732968872
- Cited by
- 324
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 35
- FWCI
- 9.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Affective Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Keywords
- psychological autopsy, suicide, research design, informant selection, control selection, interview validity, reliability statistics, information sources
- MeSH terms
- Autopsy, Cause of Death, Data Collection, Family Relations, Humans, Research Design, Suicide
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