Psychiatry Research
Volume 157, Issue 1 , Pages 139-146 , 15 January 2008

Reduction in the suicide rate during Advent—a time series analysis

  • Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, P.O. Box 1930, CH-8021 Zurich, Switzerland
    • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, P.O. Box 1930, CH-8021 Zurich, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 442967433; fax: +41 442967449.
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  • Christoph Lauber

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, P.O. Box 1930, CH-8021 Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Matthias Bopp

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Dominique Eich

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, P.O. Box 1930, CH-8021 Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Michael Gostynski

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Felix Gutzwiller

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Tom Burns

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  • Wulf Rössler

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, P.O. Box 1930, CH-8021 Zurich, Switzerland

Received 23 September 2005 ,Revised 5 May 2006 ,Accepted 27 July 2006.

  • Image Result

    Aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, smoothed by 5-day moving averages; men, by age group; data derived from Swiss mortality statistics, 1969–2003.

    Aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, smoothed by 5-day moving averages; men, by age group; data derived from Swiss mortality statistics, 1969–2003.

  • Image Result

    Aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, smoothed by 5-day moving averages; women, by age group; data derived from Swiss mortality statistics, 1969–2003.

    Aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, smoothed by 5-day moving averages; women, by age group; data derived from Swiss mortality statistics, 1969–2003.

  • Image Result

    ARIMA analysis of aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, men (frequencies (bold line), predicted values (grey line) and residuals); data derived from Swiss mortality statistics, 19

    ARIMA analysis of aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, men (frequencies (bold line), predicted values (grey line) and residuals); data derived from Swiss mortality statistics, 1969–2003.

  • Image Result
    ARIMA analysis of aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, women (frequencies (bold line), predicted values (grey line) and residuals); data derived from Swiss mortality statistics,

    ARIMA analysis of aggregated daily frequencies of suicide, October–February, women (frequencies (bold line), predicted values (grey line) and residuals); data derived from Swiss mortality statistics, 1969–2003.

PII: S0165-1781(06)00213-7

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.07.014

Psychiatry Research
Volume 157, Issue 1 , Pages 139-146 , 15 January 2008

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