ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020
Sensitivity to Climate and Weather Changes in Euthymic Bipolar Subjects: Association With Suicide Attempts.
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- A systematic review of the association between climate change and suicidality reveals that climate indicators increase suicide rates.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Big Five personality traits, BIS/BAS dimensions and meteoropathy: a mediation model.Current issues in personality psychology · 2025Article
- Association between a large change between the minimum and maximum monthly values of solar insolation and a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2024Article
- Impact of climate change on women mental health in rural hinterland of Pakistan.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- The Immunoseasonal Theory of Psychiatric Disorders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Meteoropathy: a review on the current state of knowledge.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Review
- Factors associated with lifetime suicide attempts in bipolar disorder: results from an Italian nationwide study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Climate change, trauma and mental health in Italy: a scoping review.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
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- Personality profiles and meteoropathy intensity: A comparative study between young and older adults.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundClimate and weather are known to affect multiple areas of human life, including mental health. In bipolar disorder (BD), seasonality represents an environmental trigger for mood switches, and climatic variables may contribute to recurrences. Several studies reported seasonal and climatic-related variations in the rate of suicide attempts. Suicide risk is relevant in BD, with approximately 25% of patients attempting suicide. Therefore, this study aimed to assess sensitivity to weather and climatic variations in BD subjects and its relationship with lifetime suicide attempts.
methodsThree hundred fifty-two euthymic BD and 352 healthy control subjects, homogeneous with respect to socio-demographic characteristics, were enrolled. All participants were administered the METEO-Questionnaire (METEO-Q) to evaluate susceptibility to weather and climatic changes. We also investigated the potential relationship between sensitivity to climate and weather and lifetime suicide attempts in BD patients.
resultsMETEO-Q scores and the number of subjects reaching the cut-off for meteorosensitivity/meteoropathy were significantly higher in BD patients. Within the clinical group, BD subjects with lifetime suicide attempts obtained higher METEO-Q scores, with no differences between BD-I and BD-II. The number of suicide attempts directly correlated with METEO-Q scores. The presence of suicide attempts was associated with the physical and psychological symptoms related to weather variations. DISCUSSION: Our findings support the relevance of sensitivity to weather and climate variations in a large sample of BD subjects and point out the association of this feature with lifetime suicide attempts.
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