Reduction in the suicide rate during Advent-a time series analysis

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 139-146

  Ajdacic Gross, Vladeta ^a,b   Lauber, Christoph ^a   Bopp, Matthias ^b   Eich, Dominique ^a   Gostynski, Michael ^b   Gutzwiller, Felix ^b   Burns, Tom ^c   Rössler, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Prevention; Seasonality; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SUICIDE; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SUICIDE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 36448992279     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.07.014     Document Type: Article

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