Blue Monday Is Real for Suicide: A Case–Control Study of 188,601 Suicides
| Autor: | Eunkyong Kim, Kang-Joon Lee, Seo-Eun Cho, Han-Yong Jung, Dae-Guen Han, Kyoung-Sae Na, Seong-Jin Cho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology Time Factors Adolescent Databases Factual Names of the days of the week education Poison control Suicide prevention Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Republic of Korea Humans Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Young adult Accidental Deaths business.industry 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Case-control study Precipitating Factors 030227 psychiatry Suicide Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Case-Control Studies Accidental Female business human activities Demography |
| Zdroj: | Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 49:393-400 |
| ISSN: | 1943-278X 0363-0234 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sltb.12429 |
| Popis: | Many studies have reported that suicides tend to occur on Mondays. However, owing to a lack of controls, conclusive findings on the potential effects of a day of the week on suicides have been lacking. We analyzed public data for causes of death from 1997 to 2015 in the Republic of Korea. Accidental death was used as a control group. The probability of suicide on each day of the week according to age group was calculated. A total of 377,204 deaths (188,601 suicides and 188,603 accidental deaths) were used. The frequency of suicide was highest on Monday and decreased throughout the week until Saturday. Accidental death was highest on Saturday and showed no variations according to weekday. For people in their teens and 20s, the probabilities of suicide on Monday were 9% and 10% higher, respectively, than those on Sunday. As age increased, the differences in suicide probability according to the day of the week were attenuated. The so-called Blue Monday effect is real, particularly for people in their teens and 20s. Suicide prevention strategies that aim to attenuate the burden and stress of Mondays should be planned. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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