@article{ref1,
title="Seasonal distribution of suicide in alcoholism",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica",
year="2002",
author="Bradvik, Louise and Berglund, Mats",
volume="106",
number="4",
pages="299-302",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate the seasonal distribution of suicide in alcohol dependence and to make a comparison with unnatural death in alcoholism and suicide in other diagnostic groups. METHOD: Multiaxial ratings of all patients admitted to the Department of Psychiatry in Lund enabled the selection of patients with alcohol dependence (n=1312) during 1949-1969. When followed up to 1997 a total of 102 (99 men) alcoholic patients had taken their own life. Reference groups were patients with severe depression and autopsy cases with other diagnoses. RESULTS: The alcoholic patients showed a peak during the second quarter of the year (34%, P < 0.05). Other diagnostic groups of suicide and unnatural death in alcoholism did not show any overrepresentation in the spring. CONCLUSION: Male alcoholics showed a spring peak of suicide as opposed to other diagnostic groups.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-690X",
doi="10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.02234.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.02234.x"
}