Correction to Hatcher et al. (2024)

Reports an error in "A comparison of suicides in public safety personnel with suicides in the general population in Ontario, 2014 to 2018" by Simon Hatcher, Mark Sinyor, Nicole E. Edgar, Ayal Schaffer, Sarah E. MacLean, R. Nicholas Carleton, Ian Colman, Navitha Jayakumar, Brooklyn Ward and Rabia Zaheer ( Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Advanced Online Publication, Apr 10, 2024, np). The article by S. Hatcher et al. has now been published as an open access article with “© The Author(s)” under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2024-75413-001). Background: There is conflicting evidence on the suicide rates of different public safety personnel (PSP). There have been few studies that compare suicides in PSP with the general population and none that have used a detailed comparison of coroner records. Aims: The current study estimates suicide rates among different PSP and compares PSP suicides with the general population. Method: We identified coroner records of PSP suicides from January 2014 to December 2018 and compared each one to two matched general population controls. Results: We identified 36 PSP suicides and 72 general population controls. Police had a higher suicide rate than other PSP groups. PSP were more likely to die by firearm, be separated/divorced or married, die in a motor vehicle, have problems at work, and have a PTSD diagnosis. PSP were less likely to die by jumping. Limitations: The study may have not identified all PSP suicides. Apart from the cause of death, data in coroner records are not systematically collected, so information may be incomplete. Conclusion: PSP suicides appear different than the general population. Death records need to have an occupation identifier to enable monitoring of trends in occupational groups, such as PSP. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)