Open AccessTemporal variations in suicide attempt rates: A hospital-based study from India
Author(s) -
Shivanand Kattimani,
Venkatalakshmi Penchilaiya,
Siddharth Sarkar,
Venkatesh Muthukrishnan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/2249-4863.192369
Subject(s) - medicine , staffing , demography , suicide rates , names of the days of the week , suicide prevention , tertiary care , suicide attempt , poison control , emergency medicine , psychiatry , medical emergency , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , sociology
Temporal variations of suicide attempts can help to better understand correlates of suicidal behavior. This study attempted to find the diurnal, weekly, and seasonal variations in suicide attempts at a tertiary care hospital in India.