Healio (3/4, Gramigna) reports, “Suicide risk is higher at night than any other time of day,” investigators concluded in a study that “found no significant variation in this risk by method, month or demographic characteristics.” For the study, the study team “collected time, date, method and demographic information for 35,338 suicides included in the National Violent Death Reporting System between 2003 and 2010,” then “compared the estimated hourly proportion of the population awake from the American Time Use Survey for 2003 to 2010 with the time of fatal injury, which was grouped into one-hour bins.” The study revealed that “across all months and methods, risk for suicide was higher at night.” The findings were published online Feb. 25 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Suicide risk significantly elevated at night, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, March 4, 2020