Men with a disability should be considered a priority group when it comes to forming policy around suicide prevention, according to a group of researchers and academics at Melbourne University.
Their recommendation comes as a result of a study into male suicide (8000 Australian males aged 18 to 55), which showed that those who reported a disability were more likely to have suicidal thoughts than other men.
Published in the Journal of Public Health, the study reported 10 per cent of men with a disability had suicidal thoughts in 2018, compared with four per cent of those without a disability.
They speculate that discrimination may be one explanation for the observed association. More research on this topic is needed.
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