School of Health & Society, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia.
School of Graduate Medicine, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jul 29;16(15):2708. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16152708.
Hanging is a common method of suicide in several countries. Even as global suicide rates decrease, there is no evidence of suicides by hanging declining. There is limited research by type of hanging, and only a few papers present suicide by hanging from ceiling fans. Our paper proposes a research agenda that will: specify the size of the problem of hanging by ceiling fan (Stage 1: Surveillance), use standard engineering product development processes to modify ceiling fans for reducing their lethal capacity (Stage 2: Design Testing and Redevelopment), and examine the resulting beta- and release-build fans for safety and potential to reduce suicide in community samples (Stage 3: Evaluation).
在一些国家，上吊是一种常见的自杀方式。尽管全球自杀率呈下降趋势，但上吊自杀的案例却并未减少。关于上吊自杀的研究有限，仅有少数论文涉及吊扇上吊自杀的案例。我们的研究提出了一个研究议程，该议程将：明确吊扇上吊自杀问题的严重程度（第 1 阶段：监测）；利用标准的工程产品开发流程改进吊扇，降低其致命性（第 2 阶段：设计测试和重新开发）；检验由此产生的 beta 版和发行版风扇在社区样本中的安全性和降低自杀风险的潜力（第 3 阶段：评估）。
