Direct effect of sunshine on suicide

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1231-1237

  Vyssoki, Benjamin ^a   Kapusta, Nestor D ^a   Praschak Rieder, Nicole ^a   Dorffner, Georg ^a   Willeit, Matthaeus ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DROWNING; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HANGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUICIDE; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84923656025     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.1198     Document Type: Article

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