Can Sports Events Affect Suicidal Behavior?

Andriessen, Karl; Krysińska, Karolina

doi:10.1027/0227-5910.30.3.144

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“…It is known that sporting events have an influence on suicidal behaviour; exerting either a positive or a negative effect. 19 Our results indicated a decrease in the call volume due to intentional poisonings during the time of the World Cup. In fact, it was the lowest of all the time periods evaluated.…”

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confidence: 83%

The influence of the 2010 World Cup on the Tygerberg Poison Information Centre

Hoving¹,

Veale²,

Gerber³

2011

Clinical Toxicology

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The influence of the 2010 World Cup on the Tygerberg Poison Information Centre

Hoving¹,

Veale²,

Gerber³

2011

Clinical Toxicology

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“…However, these findings do not allow for an assessment of the relationship between suicide-related behaviour risk and one’s personal presence at the stadium or watching such events on TV, although it has been suggested that such a relationship may exist [7]. …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, ‘there is lack of research focusing on how sports spectatorship might influence levels of suicide risk in individuals, and how mediating variables might operate on the individual level’ [7]. However, the psychological literature on crowds has highlighted that there are two common factors leading to crowd behaviour.…”

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“…Several sociological and psychological models have been used to examine the theoretical background in studies investigating the impact of a wide range of social events on suicidal behaviour [1-4]. However, these studies have predominantly investigated national events [5-7]. …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Sports events appear to be the only kind of mass gatherings whose effects on suicide have been a subject to an epidemiological evaluation [7]. Two earlier studies [12,13] found no significant changes in national suicide rates related to sports events.…”

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Impact of some types of mass gatherings on current suicide risk in an urban population: statistical and negative binominal regression analysis of time series

Usenko¹,

Svirin

Shchekaturov³

et al. 2014

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundMany studies have investigated the impact of a wide range of social events on suicide-related behaviour. However, these studies have predominantly examined national events. The aim of this study is to provide a statistical evaluation of the relationship between mass gatherings in some relatively small urban sub-populations and the general suicide rates of a major city.MethodsThe data were gathered in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, with a population of 1 million people, in 2005–2010. Suicide attempts, suicides, and the total amount of suicide-related behaviours were registered daily for each sex. Bivariate and multivariate statistical analysis, including negative binomial regression, were applied to assess the risk of suicide-related behaviour in the city’s general population for 7 days before and after 427 mass gatherings, such as concerts, football games, and non-regular mass events organized by the Orthodox Church and new religious movements.ResultsThe bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses found significant changes in some suicide-related behaviour rates in the city’s population after certain kinds of mass gatherings. In particular, we observed an increased relative risk (RR) of male suicide-related behaviour after a home defeat of the local football team (RR = 1.32, p = 0.047; regression coefficient beta = 0.371, p = 0.002), and an increased risk of male suicides (RR = 1.29, p = 0.006; beta =0.255, p = 0.002), male suicide-related behaviour (RR = 1.25, p = 0.019; beta =0.251, p < 0.001), and total suicide-related behaviour (RR = 1.23 p < 0.001; beta =0.187, p < 0.001) after events organized by the new religious movements.ConclusionsAlthough football games and mass events organized by new religious movements involved a relatively small part of an urban population (1.6 and 0.3%, respectively), we observed a significant increase of the some suicide-related behaviour rates in the whole population. It is likely that the observed effect on suicide-related behaviour is related to one’s personal presence at the event rather than to its broadcast. Our findings can be explained largely in terms of Gabennesch’s theory of the ‘broken-promises effect’ with regard to intra- and interpersonal conflict and, in terms of crowd behaviour effects.

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