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The Relationship between Meteorological Conditions and Homicide, Suicide, Rage, and Psychiatric Hospitalization
Author(s) -
Talaei Ali,
Hedjazi Arya,
Rezaei Ardani Amir,
Fayyazi Bordbar Mohammad Reza,
Talaei Andisheh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/1556-4029.12471
Subject(s) - homicide , medicine , air temperature , relative humidity , rage (emotion) , demography , poison control , injury prevention , psychiatry , psychology , medical emergency , geography , meteorology , neuroscience , sociology
This study focuses on the relationship between the incidence of homicide, rage, suicide, and psychiatric hospitalization as violent behaviors with temperature, humidity, and air pressure as specific meteorological variables in the city of M ashhad, in the northeast of I ran. The data were obtained from I ran M eteorological O rganization, official registry of L egal M edicine O rganization and the local psychiatric hospital, March 2009 to Feb 2010 daily and were analyzed with SPSS ‐14 using P earson correlation coefficient, ANOVA , and post hoc analysis tests. The rates of rage and psychiatric admission had a significant relationship with the daily mean air temperature, minimum relative humidity, maximum relative humidity, minimum daily pressure, and maximum daily air pressure ( p < 0.0001). There was no significant correlation between homicide and suicide rates with any meteorological variables ( p > 0.05). We concluded that, the possibility of nonfatal violence and psychiatric hospitalization would increase in hot and arid weather with low air pressure.