ArticleBMC psychiatry2024
Seasonal variation in suicide: age group and summer effects in the United States (2015-2020).
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- Association of short-term ambient environmental exposures with suicide and drug overdose deaths among U.S. veterans.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of Hybrid AI and Human Suicide Detection Within Digital Peer Support.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Independent and interactive effects of wet bulb globe temperature and air pollution exposures on suicide mortality.Environment international · 2026Article
- Seasonal variations in suicide mortality in Canada: A nationwide analysis.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- A systematic review of the association between climate change and suicidality reveals that climate indicators increase suicide rates.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Associations Between Daily Outdoor Temperature and Subjective Real-time Ratings of Emotional States and Sleep in Mood Disorder Subtypes.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundSuicide is a global public health concern that affects more than 700,000 people globally every year. Seasonal variation in suicide rates is a phenomenon that has been well-documented, but recent data on the seasonality of suicide within specific age groups and sex in the United States remains less well understood.
methodsPublicly available data on monthly suicides was obtained from the Underlying Cause of Death database, CDC WONDER, from 2015-2020. The incidence of summer suicides, from June, July and August, for two groups, 15-24 and ages 25 + , was calculated and a two-sided test was performed. Seasonal Decomposition analysis was performed and time series created from 2015-2020 for every age group then converted into Trend, Seasonality, and Residual respectively.
resultsFor Americans ages 15-24, the highest spike in suicides was in autumn, September-October, with a trough in June. This is the only age group in which this occurred, differing from previous understanding of the seasonality of suicide in the literature. With all other age groups (25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74, 75 +) there was a consistent pattern of a peak in late spring/early summer, a small peak in fall, and a trough in late winter.
conclusionsThere is a seasonal variation in suicide deaths in the United States with the youngest group, ages 15-24, presenting a different pattern compared to other ages. There were no significant differences in suicide seasonality by sex.
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