Abstract
Purpose. To determine the statistical features of the frequency of suicides in the Grodno region with regard to time intervals as well as medical and social risk factors for suicide. Material and methods. In the present study we used statistical data for the Grodno region for the period 2004-2023 concerning the population size and the number of suicides as well as the maps of analysis of the causes of suicides committed in 2010-2023 (n=1520). Results. The established statistical features of the frequency of suicides in the Grodno region indicate that suicidal activity, as a population feature, is independent of the population size; it is determined and has characteristic dynamics over annual intervals and extremes within the year, month, week and day. In the structure of pre-suicide, medical and social factors not related to health conditions and comorbid with alcohol abuse predominate. Сonclusions. The established in the study statistical patterns of suicidal activity of the population of the Grodno region, which are quantitatively associated with time intervals within the day, week, month and year and qualitatively with the dominant medical and social characteristics present in pre-suicide, indicate that suicide is a population feature and causes of suicides in particular cases are determined by the suicider’s inheriting of some features of a society as an element and a formal model of this society.
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