ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Changes in Suicide Rate and Characteristics According to Age of Suicide Attempters before and after COVID-19.
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- Comparison of paediatric emergency department visits for attempted suicide, self-harm, and suicidal ideation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Relationship Between Substance Use and Suicide Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Random-Effects Proportions Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Suicide Attempts in Kerman Province: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- The effect of unemployment on suicidal ideation among men: evidence from Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Suicide-Related Emergency Department Visits Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.Cureus · 2024Article
- Rapid Response Unit for Children and Adolescents at Risk of Suicide: Promoting Therapeutic Linkage and Reducing the Risk of Relapse.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Article
- A narrative review: suicide and suicidal behaviour in older adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Depression in the COVID-19 endemic era: Analysis of online self-disclosures by young South Koreans.PloS one · 2024Article
- Youth Suicidality in the Context of Disasters.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- The Impact of Event Scale-Revised: Examining Its Cutoff Scores among Arab Psychiatric Patients and Healthy Adults within the Context of COVID-19 as a Collective Traumatic Event.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Turkish Adaptation Study of the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions in Adolescents.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2023Article
- Resilience and Wellbeing Strategies for Pandemic Fatigue in Times of Covid-19.International journal of applied positive psychology · 2023Review
- The Arabic Version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised: Psychometric Evaluation among Psychiatric Patients and the General Public within the Context of COVID-19 Outbreak and Quarantine as Collective Traumatic Events.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study aims to identify age-related suicide-related factors and changes in suicide rate before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsFrom 2018 to 2020, the patients who presented to the ED of a university hospital with a suicide attempt were classified into adolescents (≤18 years), adults (19-65 years), and elderly (>65 years), and the visits were grouped into before and after COVID-19.
resultsThere were 853 visits before and 388 visits after COVID-19, and the results showed that the number of adolescent and adult suicide patients increased immediately after the pandemic, but the overall trend did not show a significant difference from before the pandemic. In the adolescents, the ratio of male patients increased, interpersonal and school-related motivations decreased, the poisoning and cutting methods of suicide were more common, and hospitalization admissions increased. Among the elderly, the ratio of female patients increased, the number of single patients and patients without previous psychiatric problems increased, the motives for physical illness and death of people around increased, the falling and hanging methods of suicide were more common, and hospitalization admissions and deaths increased.
conclusionThe impact of COVID-19 on suicide rates and suicide-related factors varies by age group. This finding requires different approaches and methods to suicide prevention based on age.
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