Piumee Bandara

Datos Biográficos

ID5015192
NOMBREPiumee Bandara
NOMBRESPiumee
APELLIDOBandara
FIRMABANDARA P
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Peradeniya
ORCID0000-0002-9003-8648
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Trends in suicide among adolescents aged 14–17 years in India

    Open AccessVikas Arya, Gregory Armstrong et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2025Referencias: 29

    This study investigates the epidemiology of adolescent suicide in India, addressing the limited research on the subject. Data on adolescent suicide (14–17 years) by sex and state were obtained from the National Crimes Records Bureau for 2014–2019, which included acquiring unpublished data from 2016 to 2019. Crude suicide rates for the period 2014–2019 were calculated by sex and state. Rate ratios (RRs) by sex and state were also calculated to ass…

  • Reflections on the trends of suicide in Sri Lanka, 1997–2022

    Open AccessPiumee Bandara, Prabath Wickrama et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Despite reductions in suicide rates in Sri Lanka during the past decades, largely by introduction of national bans on highly hazardous pesticides, the country continues to record a higher than global average rate of suicide. With the changing availability of methods of suicide over time, we aimed to examine the age-standardized suicide rates in Sri Lanka by sex, age, and method between 1997 to 2022 using national police suicide data to identify t…

  • Attributable risk of suicide for populations in Australia

    Open AccessPiumee Bandara, Andrew Page et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Considerable reductions in the overall suicide rate in Australia may occur if risk factors are addressed in identified populations with large PAF estimates. These estimates should be considered as an adjunct to other important inputs into suicide prevention policy priorities

  • Banning highly hazardous pesticides saves the lives of young people, particularly females, in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessLisa Schölin, Duleeka Knipe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Pesticide self-poisoning is a public health problem mostly affecting low- and middle-income countries. In Sri Lanka, India and China suicide rates have reduced among young people, particularly females, following highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) bans. This success story requires attention to encourage more research on differential effects of HHP bans

  • Clinical and psychosocial factors associated with domestic violence among men and women in Kandy, Sri Lanka

    Open AccessPiumee Bandara, Andrew Page et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Domestic violence (DV) is a violation of human rights with adverse intergenerational consequences on physical and mental health. Clinical and psychosocial correlates of DV have been documented internationally, but evidence from South Asia is limited, especially among men. This is a nested cross-sectional study of the control population (N = 856) of a large case-control study in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Multivariable logistic regression models were condu…

  • Sex education and self-poisoning in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessGrace Crowley, Piumee Bandara et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    As sex education is potentially modifiable at the population-level, further research should aim to explore this association in more depth, using qualitative methods and validated measurement tools

  • Is being a 'left-behind' child associated with an increased risk of self-poisoning in adulthood? Findings from a case–control study in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessDuleeka Knipe, Paul Moran et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    PURPOSE: The long-term consequences of parental emigration on offspring self-harm risk is unknown. METHODS: We investigated the association between experiencing parental emigration in childhood with hospital presentations for self-poisoning in adulthood using a hospital case-control study. Cases were adult self-poisoning patients (≥18 year olds) admitted to the medical toxicology ward Teaching Hospital Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Sex and age frequency…