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Dog and cat ownership among suicides and matched controls.

Author(s) -

K J Helsing,

Marti Monk

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.75.10.1223

Subject(s) - suicide prevention , medicine , race (biology) , demography , poison control , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , environmental health , biology , pathology , botany , sociology

In Washington County, Maryland, ownership of cats and/or dogs was compared among 48 residents who committed suicide in the years 1975-83 and 96 living controls matched to the suicides by race, sex, and date of birth. Another comparison used as controls persons of same race, sex, and age who died of causes other than suicide in the same year as the suicide. No material association between pet ownership and suicide was observed.

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