The seasonality of suicide attempts: a single poison control center perspective

Clinical Toxicology : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists
Mark K SuRobert S Hoffman

Abstract

Introduction: Suicide attempts by poisoning are increasing and suicide occurrence may be associated with seasonality. We performed a retrospective analysis of poisoning exposure data from a single Poison Control Center (PCC) to determine if suicide attempts were associated with season, day of the week, and/or US holidays.Methods: We analyzed exposure cases identified as "intentional overdose - suspected suicide attempt" over 2009-2012. We used singular spectrum analysis (SSA) to detect cyclic patterns in the data and then performed Poisson regression and t-tests to determine if the number of cases were associated with season, day of the week, and US holidays.Results: There were 42,578 cases of "intentional overdose - suspected suicide" during the study period. Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) showed that the number of cases associated with poisoning suicide attempts peaked in the Spring and dipped in the Fall. Regression analysis showed higher numbers of suspected suicide attempts from intentional overdose in spring compared with winter by 1.07 times (p = 0.003), and on Sunday (p < 0.001), Monday (p < 0.001), and Thursday (p = 0.02) compared with Saturday by at least 1.09 times. No significant difference was seen for most holid...Continue Reading

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