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The Immediate and Enduring Effects of the Inquest on Relatives of Suicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. M. Barraclough  and
D. M. Shepherd
B. M. Barraclough
Affiliation:
MRC Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4PQ
D. M. Shepherd
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Administration, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO9 5NH
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Abstract

A survey of relatives' experience of coroners' inquests on suicides is reported. The survey was conducted shortly after the inquest and gave results similar to those of a survey which took place some years after the relevant inquests. Both surveys show that the inquest aggravates the distress resulting from bereavement by suicide. Implementing the Brodrick Report and preventing the publication of inquest reports in the press would relieve some of this additional distress.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 400 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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References

Barraclough, B. M. & Shepherd, D. M. (1976) Public interest: private grief. British Journal of Psychiatry, 129, 109–13.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Home Office (1971) Report of the Committee on Death Certification and Coroners (The Brodrick Committee), pp 123–31. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
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