Do monthly or seasonal variations exist in suicides in a high-risk setting?

• Published in: Psychiatry research Vol. 121; no. 3; pp. 263 - 269
• Main Authors: Fruehwald, Stefan, Frottier, Patrick, Matschnig, Teresa, Koenig, Franz, Lehr, Stephan, Eher, Reinhard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 2004; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Austria - epidemiology; Biological and medical sciences; Causality; Cause of Death; Circannual rhythm; Cross-Sectional Studies; Harmonic Poisson regression; Humans; Medical sciences; Periodicity; Poisson Distribution; Prison suicide; Prisoners - psychology; Prisoners - statistics & numerical data; Prisons - statistics & numerical data; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Regression Analysis; Retrospective Studies; Risk; Seasonality; Seasons; Suicide; Suicide - psychology; Suicide - statistics & numerical data; Suicide - trends; Austria; Europe; Prison suicide; Circannual rhythm; Harmonic Poisson regression; Seasonality; Social environment; Human; Carceral environment; Mental health; Biological rhythm; Suicide; Retrospective; Monthly variation; Incidence; Weekly; Seasonal variation; Comparative study; Public health

An unequal distribution of suicides over months and seasons has been a consistent finding in epidemiological surveys on suicide. Jails and prisons are a high-risk setting for suicide all over the world. The high prevalence of both outward and self-directed violence in prison populations indicates dy...