A Comparative Evaluation of Police Suicide Rate Validity
作者:
John M. Violanti,
John E. Vena,
James R. Marshall,
Sandra Petralia,
期刊:
Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 26,
issue 1
页码: 79-85
ISSN:0363-0234
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1996.tb00259.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The authors assessed sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of official police suicide rates and compared them to municipal workers. Deaths officially classified as suicide, accidental, and undetermined were submitted to a panel of medical examiners for validation. Six cases originally in the accident and undetermined rubric were reclassified as suicide. Official police suicide rates had less sensitivity (83.3% compared to 92.3%) of actual suicides than municipal worker rates. Police suicide rates also showed a lower negative proportion than municipal worker rates (86.2% compared to 98.7%). A generalizable sensitivity proportion equation for assessing suicide rates in other police groups is presented.
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