Citation

Voracek M, Sonneck G. Arch. Suicide Res. 2002; 6(4): 399-401.

Affiliation

Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, University of Vienna, Austria;

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, International Academy of Suicide Research, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13811110214529

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The retraction of a study, erroneously, due to a data assembling error, giving evidence for significantly increased suicide rates in U.S. counties after single, severe natural disasters, is commented on. However, the now corrected non-significant overall results, based on pre-post comparisons of pooled suicide rates, do not necessarily rule out possible meso-level anomalies in postdisaster suicide occurrence, which should be further investigated applying tests for time-space clustering.