ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2021
Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Low-rescue Suicide Attempts in Patients Visiting the Emergency Department after Attempting Suicide.
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- Emergency department presentations for suicide and self-harm in Korea, 2020-2024: an epidemiological study using the National Emergency Department Information System (NEDIS) database.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Analyzing the Impact of Social Distancing Policies During COVID-19 on the Risk and Rescue of Suicide Attempters Presenting to the Emergency Department: Applying the Risk-Rescue Rating Scale.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Factors affecting patients who attempted suicide in the emergency department due to the prolonged pandemic of COVID-19.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Suicide and COVID-19: a rapid scoping review.Annals of general psychiatry · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescent Self-Harm: Based on a National Emergency Department Information System.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Pandemics and Suicide Risk: Lessons From COVID and Its Predecessors.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may increase the total number of suicide attempts and the proportion of low-rescue attempts. We investigated the factors affecting low-rescue suicide attempts using the risk-rescue rating scale (RRRS) among patients who visited the emergency department (ED) after attempting suicide before or during the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsWe retrospectively investigated suicide attempts made by patients who visited our ED from March 2019 to September 2020. Patients were classified into two groups based on whether they attempted suicide before or during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data on demographic variables, psychiatric factors, suicide risk factors and rescue factors were collected and compared.
resultsA total of 518 patients were included in the study, 275 (53.1%) of whom attempted suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic. The proportion of patients who made low-rescue suicide attempts differed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (37.1% vs. 28.8%) (
conclusionThe COVID-19 pandemic was associated with low-rescue suicide attempts in patients visiting the ED after attempting suicide. Thus, we need to consider the implementation of measures to prevent low-rescue suicide attempts during similar infectious disease crises.
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