Full Moon Syndrome: Fact or Fiction

For years, we (in the nursing profession) have identified an increase in full moon personality changes among our patients and co-workers. None of them for the better! Yet research does not support our theory that the crazy come out to play during the days before and after a full moon! Nurses General Nursing Article

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Specializes in NICU.

Well goodness, is it the full moon yet where you live, because your attitude is STELLAR!! ?

Get a sense of humor. We are only half serious.

My comment wasn't meant to rile anyone up or get the evidence based practice police on high alert. Of course I don't have "hard evidence." I don't find it important enough to keep a log, or measure mean, crazy, or stupid. I am well aware it is just my opinion.

Yeah, this kind of stuff is why I don't post here often.

kythe said:
Sorry, you don't have "hard evidence" of these things. This is still opinion. You can't measure "mean, crazy, and stupid people", though someone could do a study on drunks and drug addicts. But no real study has ever supported the idea that the moon affects people's behavior.

I'm too much into astronomy to let this kind of thing pass. It bothers me when educated people believe stuff like this.

But speaking of legends, some say its the new moon or "dark of the moon", not the full moon, that causes people's behavior to be unpredictable. It's all in which stories you choose to believe.

madwife2002, BSN, RN

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Think of all the music connected to the moon

"Bad moon rising" I love this song! I sing it when the full moon is approaching! LOL

madwife2002, BSN, RN

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So true after 23 yrs of nursing I dont need the EBP I know its true

LMOA

medic0681

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Specializes in Cardiology.

Fact!

klone, MSN, RN

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wooh said:
Like I said, here is where people come and show off their smarts.

Come on confirmation bias people, does it hurt ANYONE to have fun with this? Just because we're educated professionals, it doesn't mean we have to be boring too.

Sorry, I was answering the question asked in the OP.

I'll take my big brain full of useless minutiae and toddle off to some other thread.

Kerry (Killing joy since 2001)

Specializes in FNP, ONP.

At first I thought, "You can't be serious?" as well. It is framed as though it is supposed to be perceived and debated as a serious argument, and when someone points out a rebuttal fails to use scholarly data, they are lampooned for not getting the joke. So where is the secret decoder ring that indicates it is a spoof?

madwife2002, BSN, RN

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

Is it a spoof?

It wasn't meant as a spoof but I know we all have opinions on whether it is true or not?

I actually believe there is some truth around the 'full moon syndrome' but I don't have proof, I just believe

oneLoneNurse

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Specializes in Psych, Informatics, Biostatistics.

Fiction.

kythe, LPN

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DebblesRN said:
Well goodness, is it the full moon yet where you live, because your attitude is STELLAR!! ?

Get a sense of humor. We are only half serious.

My comment wasn't meant to rile anyone up or get the evidence based practice police on high alert. Of course I don't have "hard evidence." I don't find it important enough to keep a log, or measure mean, crazy, or stupid. I am well aware it is just my opinion.

Yeah, this kind of stuff is why I don't post here often.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone. I've met people who really believe this, and from several of the comments in this thread it seemed that way here too. Maybe I am taking things too seriously. I'm not trying to scare you off from posting though. I'm sorry if I had that effect.

Specializes in FNP, ONP.
madwife2002 said:
Is it a spoof?

It wasn't meant as a spoof but I know we all have opinions on whether it is true or not?

I actually believe there is some truth around the 'full moon syndrome' but I don't have proof, I just believe

Klone was responded to as if the topic was just a spoof and advised to lighten up and have a sense of humor. So it is hard to know how to respond to these things.

My answer: no, there is no such phenomena as "full moon syndrome."

My question: do nurses want to be taken seriously as professionals in the scientific community, or not?

SaoirseRN

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The way I see it, if the moon can control the ocean, it can have an effect on people.

We all feel the effects of unseen "forces". When someone is grumpy or acting "off", others nearby can feel it, can't they? We've all heard the statement "cut the tension with a knife" and I'm sure most of us can remember walking into a room and just feeling that something was wrong before presented with any evidence of it.

Do I believe in full moons? Heck yes.

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madwife2002 said:
Is it a spoof?

It wasn't meant as a spoof but I know we all have opinions on whether it is true or not?

I actually believe there is some truth around the 'full moon syndrome' but I don't have proof, I just believe

...and my grandmother didn't have proof but she was convinced if her nose itched she would have company. With 12 grown kids, 55 grandkids, and countless great-grandkids she was usually right that someone was going to visit soon. ?