ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Meteorological Variables and Suicidal Behavior: Air Pollution and Apparent Temperature Are Associated With High-Lethality Suicide Attempts and Male Gender.
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- Thermal indices for assessing the impact of outdoor thermal environments on human health: a systematic review of epidemiological studies.International journal of biometeorology · 2025Pooled it
- Dynamic Simulation Models of Suicide and Suicide-Related Behaviors: Systematic Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Climate Change on the Global Demand for Psychiatric Services.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- 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
- A systematic review of the association between climate change and suicidality reveals that climate indicators increase suicide rates.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- The Impact of Seasonality on Mental Health Disorders: A Narrative Review and Extension of the Immunoseasonal Theory.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Sociodemographic, Clinical and Genetic Correlates of Aggressive and Auto-Aggressive Behaviour in Alcohol-Dependent Individuals - Preliminary Study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Particular vulnerability of patients with borderline personality disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic - a retrospective chart review.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- 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
- Effectiveness of physical barriers to prevent suicide by jumping from high-risk bridges: From an integrative review to a northern Italian province's paradigm.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Review
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- A Prospective Multicenter Longitudinal Analysis of Suicidal Ideation among Long-COVID-19 Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Inflammatory pathology in depression and suicide: a mechanistic distillation of clinical correlates.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Evening Chronotype and Suicide: Exploring Neuroinflammation and Psychopathological Dimensions as Possible Bridging Factors-A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Impact of heat on mental health emergency visits: a time series study from all public emergency centres, in Curitiba, Brazil.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Social Vulnerability and Risk of Suicide in US Adults, 2016-2020.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Short-term exposure to temperature and mental health in North Carolina: a distributed lag nonlinear analysis.International journal of biometeorology · 2023Article
- Air Pollution and Prosocial Behavior in Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Resilience and Interpersonal Relations.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Prevention of suicides associated with global warming: perspectives from early career psychiatrists.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- C-Reactive Protein as a Potential Peripheral Biomarker for High-Lethality Suicide Attempts.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study analyzed the impact of meteorological variables and high-lethality suicide attempts (HLSA) to assess a potential time shift of HLSA affected by climate evolution to predict the suicide attempt cases over different periods of the year. After attempting suicide, 225 subjects were admitted to the emergency ward of the IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino and later to the psychiatric unit from March 2016 to July 2018. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics as well as the meteorological variables were collected. The Mann-Kendall test as well as redundancy and cross-correlation analyses were performed to analyze the trends, statistically correlations, and correspondence of the trends, respectively between suicidal behaviors and climatic factors. Sixty-seven (29.8%) committed a HLSA. Our findings indicate a significant association between HLSA and male gender and apparent temperature with a strong correlation of 75% with a phase shift of -1 month. Solar radiation and air pollution (PM
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