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Phase of the Menstrual Cycle and Self-Referrals to a Suicide Prevention Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Richard D. Wetzel ,
Theodore Reich  and
James N. McClure Jr.
Richard D. Wetzel
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine St, Louis, Missouri, 63110, U.S.A.
Theodore Reich
Affiliation:
Van Amerigen Fellow of Foundation's Fund for Research in Psychiatry in Population Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 8
James N. McClure Jr.
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, U.S.A.
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A review of studies relating suicide to the menstrual cycle (Wetzel et al., in preparation) showed that an increased proportion of female suicides and attempted suicides probably occur during the luteal (from ovulation to onset of menses) and menstrual phases of the cycle. Mandell and Mandell (1967), in a study of women calling the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, found an increased number calling in the late luteal and menstrual phase of their cycle. This study assessed the relationship between phase of the cycle at the time of call and self-judged lethality.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 552 , November 1971 , pp. 523 - 524
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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Wetzel, R. D., McClure, J. N. Jr., and Reich, T. ‘A review of studies of suicide and the menstrual cycle.’ In preparation. Available on request.Google Scholar

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