Creative Ministries Network has initiated a follow up study into one of the
findings of our 2002 study, ‘Work Factors in Suicide’.
About one-third of the 109 suicide cases we tracked on the Coronial data
base identified a work injury or work-related mental illness as a factor in the
person’s suicide.
The project aims to identify:
1. the suicide risk for those on WorkCover benefits compared with suicide
rates in the general population.
2. those factors which contribute to this risk.
3. factors which lessen the risk of suicide.
The Victorian WorkCover Authority is able to assist this research by providing
aggregate data from the VWA data-base of WorkCover beneficiaries who died
while on WorkCover benefits from committing suicide.
The Victorian Coroner will also assist with access to their data base on suicide.
The project will also follow up a number of families and employers of the
deceased to see if they wish to contribute to the research.
CMN will gain the participation of families without compromising the
confidentiality, privacy and integrity of VWA and Coronial data sources.
Support measures have been put in place to ensure that interviewees were
not harmed by their participation.
CMN’s findings intend to enlighten and strengthen WorkCover and support
agency policy and practice in relation to benefit recipients.
The budget for this study will determine the extent to which qualitative
data from family members can be accessed.
A budget of $20,000 will ensure a good balance of quantitative and
qualitative data.
Enquiries: John Bottomley, Director, Creative Ministries Network 9827 8322 or john.bottomley@cmn.unitingcare.org.au
WCV's will follow up on this study and provide you with the statistics on this
very real issue effecting all workers.
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