Restricting access to a suicide hotspot does not shift the problem to another location. An experiment of two river bridges in Brisbane, Australia

• Published in: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 134 - 138
• Main Authors: Law, Chi‐kin, Sveticic, Jerneja, De Leo, Diego
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia Elsevier B.V 01.04.2014; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier
• Subjects: access to means; Architectural Accessibility - statistics & numerical data; Australia; Barriers; Environment Design; Female; Firearm laws & regulations; Firearms; Humans; Legislation; Male; method substitution; Poisoning; Prevention; Psychiatry; Public health; Registries; Regression Analysis; Safety; Safety barriers; Safety Management; Substitutes; Suicide; Suicide - prevention & control; Suicide - statistics & numerical data; Suicide - trends; suicide hotspot; Suicide prevention; Suicides & suicide attempts; Australia; Hong Kong China; Queensland Australia; United Kingdom > UK; China; PSE, New Zealand; ISEW, Australia, Queensland; Australia, Queensland, Brisbane; suicide prevention; suicide hotspot; Australia; method substitution; access to means

Restricting access to lethal means is a well‐established strategy for suicide prevention. However, the hypothesis of subsequent method substitution remains difficult to verify. In the case of jumping from high places (‘hotspots’), most studies have been unable to control for a potential shift in sui...