ArticleJournal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi2022
Suicide trends varied by age-subgroups during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in Taiwan.
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- Spatiotemporal analysis of suicide attempts in Colombia from 2018 to 2020.Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide mortality in Spain: Differences by sex and age.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- The increase in suicide risk in older adults in Taiwan during the COVID-19 outbreak.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide rates in Hungary: an interrupted time-series analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Calling for more Attention to Geriatric Suicidality in the Post-Pandemic Era.Aging and disease · 2022Article
- Factors associated with insomnia and suicidal thoughts among outpatients, healthcare workers, and the general population in Taiwan during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Prolonged impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm hospitalizations in France: A nationwide retrospective observational study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2022Observational
- Suicide trends in Norway during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. A register-based cohort study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2022Article
- Social media and suicide in social movements: a case study in Hong Kong.Journal of computational social science · 2022Article
- Suicide mortality in Spain in 2020: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Spanish journal of psychiatry and mental healthArticle
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Abstract
background/purposeThe outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to unprecedented impact on mental health globally. Recent empirical data however, indicated that suicide rates in many countries remained unchanged or even decreased. Existing studies assessed the overall rates and did not stratify by age-subgroups.
methodsWe used an interrupted time-series analysis to model the age-stratified (<25, 25-44, 45-64, ≥65) trends in monthly suicide rates before (January 1st, 2017 to December 31st, 2019) and after (January 1st 2020 to December 31st 2020) the outbreak of COVID-19 in Taiwan.
resultsWe found a slight decrease in overall suicide rates after the outbreak (annual average rates were 16.4 and 15.5 per 100,000 population, respectively, p = 0.05). Age-stratified analysis indicated that suicide rates increased in younger (<25) and decreased in the middle age group (25-64 years). In older age groups (≥65), an immediate rate decrease was observed followed by a sustained upward trend during the onset of the pandemic.
conclusionAlthough an overall decrease in annual suicide rates was found after the outbreak, the age-specific subgroup analysis reveals a more nuanced picture. Stratified analysis is crucial to identify vulnerable subgroups in the midst of the pandemic.
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