Seasonality of suicide attempts: Association with gender

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 260, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 393-400

  Mergl, Roland ^a   Havers, Inga ^a   Althaus, David ^b   Rihmer, Zoltán ^c   Schmidtke, Armin ^d   Lehfeld, Hartmut ^e   Niklewski, Gunter ^e   Hegerl, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Praxis for Psychotherapy ^*  (Germany)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; High risk method; Low risk method; Seasonality; Suicide attempts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956906462     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-009-0086-1     Document Type: Article

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