Citation

Gómez González MJ, Alonso García C, Piñana López A. Aten. Primaria 1997; 19(4): 177-182.

Vernacular Title

Influencia de la bioclimatologia en los suicidios.

Affiliation

Centro de Salud La Unión, Murcia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Sociedad Espanola de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria, Publisher Elsevier España)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9264637

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To verify the influence of the weather on suicides. DESIGN: A retrospective descriptive study. SETTING: County of Cartagena. PARTICIPANTS: All the suicides recorded in the Anatomical Forensic Institute of Cartagena between 1986 and 1993. INTERVENTIONS: Creation of a data base with the essential features of each suicide and all the relevant bioclimatological variables of the exact moment they happen. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: A statistical description of each variable was made. The relationship between the different variables was defined by the Pearson chi 2 test and residual analysis. The sample data were compared with the population data (Neyman-Pearson and Pearson chi 2 tests), p < 0.05. 149 suicides were recorded. These suicides occur during the day, Monday and Saturday being the days with the highest number of them. Distribution throughout the month was homogeneous: July was the month with most suicides. There was an age band in the second and third decades of life and a peak in elderly people. Our sample had 77.9% men. Retired people and housewives predominated. CONCLUSION: Suicides are generally influenced by meteorological factors.

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