We calculated the rate of attempts, accounting for the number of days in the weekend versus the week, using a Poisson regression; while the rate of attempts appears lower on the weekend, this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.3) (see Table 2 ).
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Timing of suicide attempts by children and adolescents admitted to an inpatient psychiatry unit: a retrospective study.
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Admissions were significantly higher during school periods as compared to out of school periods and significantly increased from prior- to post-school starts, indicating school periods and school onset may be significant stressors associated with an increased rate of psychiatric admissions [ 32 ].
Since there were only 22 males in our sample, the finding of their most common time-period of suicide attempts in males (12:00 to 17:59) may not be significant.