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Suicidal behaviors and ideation during emerging viral disease outbreaks before the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic rapid review.
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- Suicide before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal attempts and death rates: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Suicide, self-harm and suicidal ideation during COVID-19: A systematic review.Psychiatry research · 2021Pooled it
- COVID-19 pandemic: health impact of staying at home, social distancing and 'lockdown' measures-a systematic review of systematic reviews.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2021Pooled it
- Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2021Pooled it
- Suicidal Thoughts and Self-Harm Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Population-Based Survey Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Short-Term Restriction of Physical and Social Activities Effects on Brain Structure and Connectivity.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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- Psychosocial and financial well-being mediated the effects of COVID-19 distress on suicidality: a serial mediation model among Hong Kong young adults.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Trend of suicide by self-immolation in a 13-year timeline: was the COVID-19 pandemic a potentially important stressor?Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Suicidal Ideation and Death by Suicide as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spanish-Speaking Countries: Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ambulance transports for self-harm: a population-based study in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.BMJ open · 2023Observational
- Factors Related to Psychological Distress in Suicide Prevention Supporters during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Emotional distress and quality of life among adults with developmental coordination disorder during COVID-19.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2023Article
- Mental Pain, Psychological Distress, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Emergency: the Moderating Role of Tolerance for Mental Pain.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2023Article
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- Differential impact on suicide mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2022Article
- Public Discourse Surrounding Suicide during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of Twitter Posts over a One-Year Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Mental health implications of monkeypox: An urgent need for action.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The current COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe pandemic of the 21st century, on track to having a rising death toll. Beyond causing respiratory distress, COVID-19 may also cause mortality by way of suicide. The pathways by which emerging viral disease outbreaks (EVDOs) and suicide are related are complex and not entirely understood. We aimed to systematically review the evidence on the association between EVDOs and suicidal behaviors and/or ideation. An electronic search was conducted using five databases: Medline, Embase, Web of Science, PsycINFO and Scopus in April 2020. A rapid systematic review was carried out, which involved separately and independently extracting quantitative data of selected articles. The electronic search yielded 2480 articles, of which 9 met the inclusion criteria. Most of the data were collected in Hong Kong (n = 3) and the USA (n = 3). Four studies reported a slight but significant increase in deaths by suicide during EVDOs. The increase in deaths by suicide was mainly reported during the peak epidemic and in older adults. Psychosocial factors such as the fear of being infected by the virus or social isolation related to quarantine measures were the most prominent factors associated with deaths by suicide during EVDOs. Overall, we found scarce and weak evidence for an increased risk of deaths by suicide during EVDOs. Our results inform the need to orient public health policies toward suicide prevention strategies targeting the psychosocial effects of EVDOs. High-quality research on suicide risk and prevention are warranted during the current pandemic.
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