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Article: Alcohol Factors in Suicide Mortality Rates in Manitoba
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
- Author:
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Objective: To identify alcohol-related factors that influence mortality rates from suicide.
Method: We examined the impact of per capita consumption of total alcohol, spirits, beer, and wine; unemployment rate; and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) membership rate on total, male and female suicide mortality rates in Manitoba during 1976 to 1997. Time series analyses with autoregressive integrated moving average modelling were applied to total, male and female suicide rates. The analyses performed included total alcohol consumption, spirits consumption, beer consumption, and wine consumption. Missing AA membership data were interpolated with cubic splines.
Results: Total alcohol consumption, and ...