Autumn Peak in Shooting Suicides of Children and Adolescents from Northern Finland

摘要: Suicide is one of the leading causes death among adolescents worldwide. Studies on seasonal pattern youth suicides are rare and results very contradictory heterogeneous. Generally, suicide methods affect seasonality. Shooting most common method Finnish adolescents. We investigated whether shooting victims aged less than 18 years correlated with a specific period year. Also, in was compared that adult victims. Our data comprised 42 adolescent and, for comparison, 1,926 over 1988 to 2004 from Northern Finland.Of these, 59.5% (n = 25) 28.8% 554) adults had committed by shooting.We observed under-aged showed significant peak autumn (ratio 2.70, 95% CI: 1.97-3.42), while those peaked spring 1.19, 1.05-1.35). The monthly significantly mean duration daily sunshine hours (trailing 3 months) (r 0.67, p 0.016), but not 0.06, 0.854). role firearm availability, psychosocial factors such as start school year, some biological discussed. Language: en