{"id":905,"date":"2009-07-09T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T03:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=905"},"modified":"2009-07-09T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T03:18:06","slug":"new-research-on-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/07\/09\/new-research-on-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"new research on suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-07-08-suicide-season_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a> ran a story about new research soon to be published in the journal\u00a0<em>Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology <\/em>debunking some popular myths about suicide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-07-08-suicide-season_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"inside-copy\">Common beliefs about suicide being more likely on Mondays and during the winter aren&#8217;t really true, according to new research from the University of California, Riverside \u2014 summer is the most common season and Wednesday the most likely day. [The study is co-authored by\u00a0sociology professor Augustine Kposowa.]<\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">July and August are the most common months for suicide, followed by April and May, finds the analysis&#8230;\u00a0The researchers found that 24.6% of suicides were on Wednesdays, with Thursdays the least likely day at just 11.1%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Kposowa elaborates:<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Kposowa says the common wisdom used to be that suicides were more likely on Mondays because the weekend had ended; however, he says Wednesday is right in the middle of the work week when stress is highest and the weekend is still farther away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">&#8220;Thursday is lowest because usually people are in better moods because the weekend is near,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">He also says the folklore about more suicides in winter never really was true because much past research has shown that suicide was more likely in the spring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-07-08-suicide-season_N.htm\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning USA Today ran a story about new research soon to be published in the journal\u00a0Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology debunking some popular myths about suicide. USA Today reports: Common beliefs about suicide being more likely on Mondays and during the winter aren&#8217;t really true, according to new research from the University of California, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39113,152,121],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-mental"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}