Year: 2003 Source: Psychosomatic Medicine, v.65, no.2, (March/April 2003), p.237-244 SIEC No: 20041103

Based on their own earlier findings, the authors tested their hypothesis that the proportion of suicide attempters during the menses is significantly higher than the expected probability in the general population using a replication naturalistic study of 120 fertile adult female suicide attempters with regular menstruation cycles during a 1-year period in the emergency room of a general hospital in Madrid, Spain. They found that the probability of attempting suicide during the menses was 1.68 times higher than the overall probability of attempting suicide for any fertile women. (37 refs)