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Weekly and monthly patterns in suicide-related emergency care visits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

D. Hernández-Calle  and
M.F. Bravo-Ortiz
D. Hernández-Calle*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
M.F. Bravo-Ortiz
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Suicidal seeking help seeking behaviour has with associated with seasonal pattern that reflect an array of psychosocial factors. Its understanding is paramount for improving psychiatric emergency care.

Objectives

Our aim was to analyse weekly and monthly seasonality on emergency department visits due to autolytic phenomena

Methods

Daily urgency visits from suicidal phenomena (including suicide attempt and ideation) were extracted from electronic medical records of Hospital Universitario La Paz from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. A poisson multivariate model was performed with day of the week and month as covariates. Predictive margins were estimated

Results

Psychiatric emergency visits due to suicidal phenomena were less frequent in Saturday and Sunday (1.8 visits per day) than weekdays (2.5 visits per day). Peaks were observed in February and September, being April and May the months with fewer visits

Conclusions

A weekly season pattern was observed with less psychiatric emergency visits due to suicidal phenomena during weekends. They picked during colder months and were less frequent during spring time

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

Help seekingSuicide
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Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S708 - S709
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association
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