ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Europe2021
Hospitalization for self-harm during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in France: A nationwide retrospective observational cohort study.
Article in The Lancet regional health. Europe, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Changes in Hospitalization for Eating Disorders and Related Suicidal Risk, Following COVID-19 Pandemic.Depression and anxiety · 2026Article
- Self-Harm Presentations to a Pediatric Trauma Centre During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2025Article
- Temporal trends in suicide related emergency calls by age group and gender from 2014 to 2023.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Risk of admission to hospital for self-harm after admission to hospital for COVID-19: French nationwide longitudinal study.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Article
- Hospitalization for SARS-CoV-2 and the risk of self-harm readmission: a French nationwide retrospective cohort study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2024Article
- Association Between COVID-19 and Self-Harm: Nationwide Retrospective Ecological Spatiotemporal Study in Metropolitan France.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Article
- Natural language processing of multi-hospital electronic health records for public health surveillance of suicidality.Npj mental health research · 2024Article
- Trends in emergency department visits for suicide attempts before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: A nationwide study, 2016-2021.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- The Effect of Loneliness on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behavior in Chinese Junior High School Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- The association of social, economic, and health-related variables with suicidal and/or self-harm thoughts in individuals admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study.Psychiatry research · 2023Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide attempts in a rural region in Germany, a 5-year observational study.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Observational
- Major interregional differences in France of COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality from January to June 2020.Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique · 2022Article
- Loneliness and self-harm in adolescents during the first national COVID-19 lockdown: results from a survey of 10,000 secondary school pupils in England.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Trends in psychotropic drug consumption among French military personnel during the COVID-19 epidemic.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Hospitalizations for Anorexia Nervosa during the COVID-19 Pandemic in France: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- A state level analyses of suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundLittle is known to date about the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm.
methodsThe number of hospitalizations for self-harm (ICD-10 codes X60-X84) in France from 1st January to 31st August 2020 (including a two-month confinement) was compared to the same periods in 2017-2019. Statistical methods comprised Poisson regression, Cox regression and Student's OUTCOMES: There were 53,583 self-harm hospitalizations in France during January to August 2020. Compared to the same period in 2019, this represents an overall 8·5% decrease (Relative Risk [95% Confidence Interval] = 0·91 [0·90-0·93]).This decrease started in the first week of confinement and persisted until the end of August. Similarly, decrease was found in both women (RR=0·90 [0·88-0·92]) and men (RR=0·94 [0·91-0·95]), and in all age groups, except 65 years and older. Regarding self-harm hospitalizations by means category, increases were found for firearm (RR=1·20 [1·03-1·40]) and for jumping from heights (RR=1·10 [1·01-1·21]). There was a trend for more hospitalizations in intensive care (RR=1·03 [0·99-1·07]). The number of deaths at discharge from hospital also increased (Hazard Ratio = 1·19 [1·09-1·31]). Self-harm hospitalizations were weakly correlated with the rates of hospitalization for COVID-19 across administrative departments (Spearman's rho =-0·21;
interpretationThe COVID-19 pandemic had varied effects on self-harm hospitalizations during the early months in France. Active suicide prevention strategies should be maintained.
fundingFrench National Research Agency.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.