Detecting intimate partner violence circumstance for suicide: development and validation of a tool using natural language processing and supervised machine learning in the National Violent Death Reporting System.
Julie M KafkaMichael Dolan FlissPamela J TrangensteinLuz McNaughton ReyesBrian W PenceKathryn Elizabeth MoraccoPublished in: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (2022)
It is possible to detect IPV circumstances among singles suicides in NVDRS, although vague language in death narratives limited our tool's sensitivity. More attention to the role of IPV in suicide is merited both during the initial death investigation processes and subsequent NVDRS reporting. This tool can support future research to inform targeted prevention.