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Association of holidays and the day of the week with suicide risk: multicounty, two stage, time series study

W. Lee, C. Kang, C. Park, ML. Bell, B. Armstrong, D. Roye, M. Hashizume, A. Gasparrini, A. Tobias, F. Sera, Y. Honda, A. Urban, J. Kyselý, C. Íñiguez, N. Ryti, Y. Guo, S. Tong, M. de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, E. Lavigne, F. de'Donato, YL....

. 2024 ; 387 (-) : e077262. [pub] 20241023

Language English Country England, Great Britain

Document type Journal Article

Grant support
MR/V034162/1 Medical Research Council - United Kingdom

OBJECTIVES: To assess the short term temporal variations in suicide risk related to the day of the week and national holidays in multiple countries. DESIGN: Multicountry, two stage, time series design. SETTING: Data from 740 locations in 26 countries and territories, with overlapping periods between 1971 and 2019, collected from the Multi-city Multi-country Collaborative Research Network database. PARTICIPANTS: All suicides were registered in these locations during the study period (overall 1 701 286 cases). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Daily suicide mortality. RESULTS: Mondays had peak suicide risk during weekdays (Monday-Friday) across all countries, with relative risks (reference: Wednesday) ranging from 1.02 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.95 to 1.10) in Costa Rica to 1.17 (1.09 to 1.25) in Chile. Suicide risks were lowest on Saturdays or Sundays in many countries in North America, Asia, and Europe. However, the risk increased during weekends in South and Central American countries, Finland, and South Africa. Additionally, evidence suggested strong increases in suicide risk on New Year's day in most countries with relative risks ranging from 0.93 (95% CI 0.75 to 1.14) in Japan to 1.93 (1.31 to 2.85) in Chile, whereas the evidence on Christmas day was weak. Suicide risk was associated with a weak decrease on other national holidays, except for Central and South American countries, where the risk generally increased one or two days after these holidays. CONCLUSIONS: Suicide risk was highest on Mondays and increased on New Year's day in most countries. However, the risk of suicide on weekends and Christmas varied by country and territory. The results of this study can help to better understand the short term variations in suicide risks and define suicide prevention action plans and awareness campaigns.

Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research University of Oulu Oulu Finland

Climate Air Quality Research Unit School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Monash University Melbourne VIC Australia

Climate Research Foundation Madrid Spain

Department of Environmental Health Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Boston MA USA

Department of Environmental Medicine College of Medicine Ewha Woman's University Seoul South Korea

Department of Epidemiology Lazio Regional Health Service ASL Roma 1 Rome Italy

Department of Global Environmental Health Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan

Department of Global Health Policy Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan

Department of Mathematical Sciences Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon South Korea

Department of Psychiatry Ewha Woman's University Mokdong Hospital Ewha Woman's University College of Medicine Seoul South Korea

Department of Public Health Environments and Society London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK

Department of Public Health Science Graduate School of Public Health Seoul National University Seoul South Korea

Department of Public Health University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

Department of Statistics and Computational Research Universitat de València València Spain

Department of Statistics Computer Science and Applications G Parenti University of Florence Florence Italy

Environment and Health Modeling Lab London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK

Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences National Taiwan University and NTU Hospital Taipei Taiwan

Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau Health Canada Ottawa Canada

Epidemiology IBE Faculty of Medicine LMU Munich Munich Germany

Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Czech Republic

Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Japan

Institute of Atmospheric Physics Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research Barcelona Spain

Institute of Epidemiology Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health Neuherberg Germany

Institute of Ewha SCL for Environmental Health College of Medicine Ewha Woman's University Seoul South Korea

Interdisciplinary Program in Precision Public Health Department of Public Health Sciences Graduate School of Korea University Seoul South Korea

International University Health Science University of Medicine Basseterre St Kitts and Nevis

Laboratory of Urban Health Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo INSPER São Paulo Brazil

National Institute of Environmental Health Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Beijing China

School of Biomedical Convergence Engineering College of Information and Biomedical Engineering Pusan National University Yangsan South Korea

School of Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine University of Ottawa Ottawa ON Canada

School of Public Health and Social Work Queensland University of Technology Brisbane QLD Australia

School of the Environment Yale University New Haven CT USA

School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health Nagasaki University Nagasaki Japan

Spanish and Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health Santiago de Compostela Spain

System Health and Engineering Major in Graduate School Ewha Woman's University Seoul South Korea

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