Deaf people and suicide

A literature review is a search for research papers on a particular topic. In this case the topic was ‘suicide in the deaf’. Initially the researchers found 95 papers on deafness and suicide. However, when they looked at them more closely, many of the papers were not relevant. In fact they found only four papers about deafness and suicide: Boyechko 1992, Critchfi eld et al 1986, Dudzinski 1998 and Black & Glickman 2006. The research for all four papers took place in the USA. No UK research could be found.