Cantor C H, Coory M
Department of Psychiatry, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane.
Aust J Public Health. 1993 Dec;17(4):382-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1993.tb00173.x.
Suggestions that youth suicide rates are disproportionately higher in rural areas were explored using Queensland cause-of-death data supplied by Queensland Health for the years 1986 to 1990. Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) were compared across three zones: urban, provincial and rural, for three age bands: all ages, 15 to 19 years and 20 to 29 years, for each sex. This Queensland study did not find a statistically significant excess of rural youth suicides. Further study of this phenomenon involving other states is called for.
利用昆士兰卫生部提供的1986年至1990年昆士兰的死因数据，对农村地区青年自杀率过高的说法进行了探究。对三个区域（城市、省级和农村）、三个年龄组（各年龄段、15至19岁以及20至29岁）的男女标准化死亡率（SMR）进行了比较。这项昆士兰研究未发现农村青年自杀率在统计学上有显著过高的情况。因此需要对这一现象开展涉及其他州的进一步研究。
