Phillips D P, Sanzone A G
Department of Sociology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
Am J Public Health. 1988 May;78(5):541-3. doi: 10.2105/ajph.78.5.541.
The date of death was compared with the date of injury (the onset of the suicidal act) for 42,698 California suicides, 1973-85. Findings revealed 92.6 per cent of all California suicides occurred within one day of the injury date. Graphs of daily suicides by injury date and by death date displayed essentially identical patterns around the holidays, by date of the week, and after publicized suicide stories. These findings suggest that the difference between date of death and date of injury need not be taken into consideration in the analysis of temporal fluctuations, as was previously supposed.
对1973年至1985年加利福尼亚州42698例自杀案例的死亡日期与受伤日期（自杀行为开始的日期）进行了比较。研究结果显示，加利福尼亚州所有自杀案例中有92.6%发生在受伤日期后的一天内。按受伤日期和死亡日期绘制的每日自杀案例图表显示，在节假日、按星期几以及在有公开报道的自杀事件后，二者呈现出基本相同的模式。这些研究结果表明，在分析时间波动时，无需像之前所认为的那样考虑死亡日期与受伤日期之间的差异。
