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The birthday blues revisited: the timing of suicidal, homicidal and natural deaths
Author(s) -
Lester D.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb02691.x
Subject(s) - blues , homicide , suicide prevention , psychiatry , natural (archaeology) , poison control , injury prevention , psychology , medical emergency , medicine , demography , criminology , history , sociology , art history , archaeology
ABSTRACT The present results fail to find an excess of deaths from suicide (and natural deaths and homicides) around the birthday. Thus there is no evidence for a “birthday blues” effect.