TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Seasons and suicide in Slovenia
JO  - Psychiatria Danubina
A1  - Oravecz, Robert
A1  - Rocchi, Marco B.
A1  - Sisti, Davide
A1  - Zorko, Maja
A1  - Marusic, Andrej
A1  - Preti, A.
SP  - 142
EP  - 142
VL  - 18
IS  - Suppl 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0353-5053
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -