ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
Weather and Suicide: A Decade Analysis in the Five Largest Capital Cities of Colombia.
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- Suicide and Associations with Air Pollution and Ambient Temperature: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Availability of secondary healthcare data for conducting pharmacoepidemiology studies in Colombia: A systematic review.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2020Pooled it
- [Weather and suicide : Association between meteorological variables and suicidal behavior-a systematic qualitative review article].Der Nervenarzt · 2020Pooled it
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- Examining the non-linear association between ambient temperature and mental health of elderly adults in the community: evidence from Guangzhou, China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Impact of air pollution and climate change on mental health outcomes: an umbrella review of global evidence.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Meteorological Variables and Suicidal Behavior: Air Pollution and Apparent Temperature Are Associated With High-Lethality Suicide Attempts and Male Gender.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The effect of meteorological variables on suicide.International journal of biometeorology · 2020Article
- Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Suicide and Ambient Temperature: A Multi-Country Multi-City Study.Environmental health perspectives · 2019Article
- Seasonal changes in suicide in South Korea, 1991 to 2015.PloS one · 2019Article
- Mental Health and Environmental Exposures: An Editorial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Historically, seasonal variations in suicide rates were thought to be associated with changes in weather. Most of this evidence however, is based on studies that were conducted in developed countries that are located outside the tropics. As such, it is necessary to examine this association in developing countries, such as Colombia, which do not experience marked seasons. In addition, it is important to adjust for the effect of holidays when analyzing this association as they have been reported to be a relevant confounding factor. Our objective was to estimate the association between daily suicide incidence among men and women in five major Colombian cities (Bogotá, Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla, and Bucaramanga) and daily temperature and rainfall. For this purpose, we conducted a multi-city, multi-temporal ecological study from 2005 to 2015, using data from the suicide mortality registries (provided by the National Administrative Department of Statistics). Daily measurements of the two weather variables were obtained from the official historical registry of the meteorological station at each city airport. We used these data to estimate conditional Poisson models for daily suicide counts, stratifying by sex and adjusting for holidays. Although we found that none of the weather variable estimators could reject the null hypothesis, we uncovered an association between suicide incidence and long weekends in the total suicide model (Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR): 1.19, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.04⁻1.23). We found no evidence of association between weather variables and suicide in Colombia. Our study is based on daily observations and it provides evidence of absence of this association in a tropical country that does not experience marked seasons.
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