@article{ref1,
title="Seasons and suicide in Slovenia",
journal="Psychiatria Danubina",
year="2006",
author="Oravecz, Robert and Rocchi, Marco B. and Sisti, Davide and Zorko, Maja and Marusic, Andrej and Preti, A.",
volume="18",
number="Suppl 1",
pages="142-142",
abstract="Background: Recent studies have reported changes in the time patterns of suicide: socio-economic and medicine-related variables may contribute to the modification of the long-term seasonality of suicides. Methods: Harmonic spectral analysis was used to analyze all suicides in Slovenia in the years 1971 to 2003 (no. = 14,764 among males; 4,471 among females). Analyses focusing on overall change rely on data aggregated by intervals of eight years. Results: In both genders, seasonal variance accounts for a statistically significant proportion of total variance (36.0% among males; 13.3% among females). Anyway in both genders the season-attributable variance in the last interval is considerably lower than the preceding time intervals. Limitations: Data could not be analyzed according to age or mental disorder diagnosis, since this piece of information was not available. Conclusion: The seasonal effect on mortality by suicide is sensitive to social conflicts; the improvement in the recognition and treatment of mental disorders may have contributed to decreasing the seasonal amplitude observed in Slovenia and elsewhere.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0353-5053",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}