@article{ref1,
title="The occurrence of suicide in severe depression related to the months of the year and the days of the week",
journal="European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience",
year="2002",
author="Bradvik, Louise",
volume="252",
number="1",
pages="28-32",
abstract="The purpose of the present study was to investigate the distribution of suicide during the months of the year and the days of the week in severe depression. A total of 1206 in-patients rated at discharge from the Department of Psychiatry, Lund, Sweden, on a multiaxial diagnostic schedule received the diagnosis severe depression/melancholia between 1956 to 1969. When followed up to 1998, a total of 114 depressed patients had taken their own life. Out of these, 98 patients appeared to have a primary depression. The monthly distribution of suicides showed a significant peak in October/November for men (41 % of all male suicides). No correlation with the onset of depression could be detected. Furthermore, there was a preponderance of suicide on Sundays for both sexes (31 % of all suicides).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0940-1334",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}