Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic

By E. Caine, L. Chan, Shu-Sen Chang, Ying-Yeh Chen, Helen Christensen, R. Dandona, Michael Eddleston, A. Erlangsen, J. Harkavy-Friedman, Olivia J. Kirtley and 25 more. Lancet psychiatry, 2020

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Neurology

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Citations in the corpus

• Investigating Mental Health of US College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Survey Study (2020, result): “This finding is in line with the increased suicide rates observed during previous pandemics [19].”
• Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study (2020, background): “Although an increase in suicide is not inevitable, 37 the present data may be an early indicator of emerging risk, especially as the economic fallout of COVID-19 escalates.”
• COVID-19-Related Mental Health Effects in the Workplace: A Narrative Review (2020, background): “Therefore, research data for the development of evidence-based approaches are essential to reduce the negative consequences of the epidemic on psychological health [10].”
• Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020, background): “17 The potential fallout of an economic downturn on mental health is likely to be profound on those directly affected and their caregivers.”
• Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population (2020, background): “…reasonable to expect not only sustained distress and clinically significant deter ioration in mental health for some people, but emergence of well described long-term effects of economic recession on mental health including increasing suicide rates 22 and hospital admissions 23 for mental illness.”
• Vaccine hesitancy: the next challenge in the fight against COVID-19 (2020, background): “Additional emotional distress in the face of extensive media coverage of the rising numbers of casualties, overburdened health systems, and insu cient government responses to COVID-19 has perhaps risen communal anxieties and distrust in healthcare systems and state actors [10].”
• Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21 (2022, positive): “29 There is convincing evidence that rates of anxiety and depression increased during the pandemic period, which might lead to increases in deaths from suicide; 30,31 however, to date, evidence of increased suicide mortality is scarce apart from in Japan, where reported suicide deaths increased”