Citation

McCleary R, Chew KS, Hellsten JJ, Flynn-Bransford M. Am. J. Public Health 1991; 81(11): 1494-1497.

Affiliation

Program in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine 92717.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Public Health Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1951813

PMCID

PMC1405688

Abstract

Total US suicides peak on the first day of each week, in the first week of each month, and in the late spring of each year. Although these cycles are assumed to characterize all US suicides, analyses by age and sex show that the cycles occur only in a few subpopulations. Day-of-the-week effects are found almost exclusively in middle-aged suicides; day-of-the-month effects are found almost exclusively in elderly male suicides; and month-of-the-year effects asre found almost exclusively in teenaged and elderly suicides.

Language: en