@article{ref1,
title="The effects of sunshine duration and ambient temperature on suicides in Hungary",
journal="Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica",
year="2020",
author="Bozsonyi, Karoly and Lester, David and Fülöp, Andrea and Zonda, Tamas and Balint, Lajos",
volume="22",
number="1",
pages="23-28",
abstract="BACKGROUND: A couple of studies suggest that sunshine duration and ambient temperature contribute to suicide. Few studies have happened in East-Central European area. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: We scrutinized the daily suicide rates and other measured meteorological parameters spanning from 1971 to 2013 in the region of Hungary exhibiting the highest suicide rate. <br><br>METHODS: The meteorological parameters measured in the area signified the independent variables of the statistical model, while the observed suicide rate connoted the dependent variable. Dynamic Regression, a time series analytical method was employed for creating the model. <br><br>RESULTS: Three meteorological parameters displayed a weak, yet statistically significant relationship with suicide rates. 1/ Daily sunshine duration has shown an immediate, significant positive correlation, 2/ daily changes in temperature at ground level also exhibited a significant relationship, albeit it followed a complex transient profile overarching three days. Tropopause height was also significant in the model: an immediate positive effect was followed by a negative effect six days later. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: We estimated consistent and immediate positive associations between daily suicide and daily change of elevated ambient temperature and duration of sunshine in a high rated area of Hungary.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1419-8711",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}