ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
The Effect of Meteorological, Pollution, and Geographic Exposures on Death by Suicide: A Scoping Review.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04446468 (Prevention of Suicide in Veterans Through Brief Intervention and Contact), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Prevention of Suicide in Veterans Through Brief Intervention and Contact (VA-BIC)
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The short-term effect of ambient particulate matter on suicide death.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2024Pooled it
- Suicides in children and early adolescents: a retrospective review from a large metropolitan area.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- Deployment-related toxic exposures, mental health problems, and suicide outcomes among Gulf War era U.S. veterans.Journal of psychiatric research · 2025Article
- Incidence, ecological factors, and temporal trends of prison homicides and suicides in Chile, 2000-2024.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Scrutinizing the Profile and Risk Factors of Suicide: A Perspective from a Case-Control Study Focused on a Northern Region of Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Suicide is a significant public health concern worldwide and in the United States. Despite the far-reaching impact of suicide, risk factors are still not well understood and efforts to accurately assess risk have fallen short. Current research has highlighted how potentially modifiable environmental exposures (i.e., meteorological, pollution, and geographic exposures) can affect suicide risk. A scoping review was conducted to evaluate the strength of the historical and current literature on the environment's effect on suicide and suicide risk. Three databases (i.e., Medline, Embase, and PsychInfo) were reviewed to identify relevant studies and two authors independently reviewed studies considering pre-determined inclusion criteria. A total of 46 meteorological studies were included as well as 23 pollution studies and 12 geographic studies. Descriptive statistics, including counts, percentages, review of studies' sample size (minimum, maximum, median, and interquartile range), were calculated using Excel and SAS 9.4. Overall, strong evidence supports that exposure to sunlight, temperature, air pollution, pesticides, and high altitude increases suicide risk, although effect sizes range from very small to small.
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