SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Suicide before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
- What patient reported outcome measures are used in clinical trials in hip fracture? A systematic mapping review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Suicide rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence of suicidal behavior in patients with chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Positive affect training to reduce mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: a proof-of-concept randomised clinical trial.BMJ mental health · 2023Trial
- COVID-19 and Suicide Mortality in a Population-Based Medico-Legal Registry: An Interrupted Time-Series and Changepoint Analysis from Southeast Romania.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Age-period-cohort effects on suicide mortality in Andalusia, Spain (2000-2024): demographic masking and sustained pandemic excess.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Recent Collective Trauma in Israel on Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating: An Overview and Clinical Perspective.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Adolescent emergency department visits for self-harm after COVID-19-related social distancing in the Republic of Korea: a 7-year retrospective study.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- From Nipah virus disease to disease X: Vigilance against the "infodemic".Infectious medicine · 2026Article
- Epidemiology of suicides attempt by self-poisoning: the Pavia Emergency-Toxicologic Network experience before and after the COVID-19 pandemic years.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- Late-Life Suicidal Ideation in Nordic and Central-European Countries: Gender Differences and Risk Factors from the SHARE Study.Journal of cross-cultural gerontology · 2026Article
- Rising trend among young adults: analysis of suicide-related deaths in Türkiye 2007-2022.BMC public health · 2026Article
- 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
- PTSD symptoms, loneliness, and amygdala volumes during pandemic social distancing associated with risk of suicidal ideation in trauma survivors with and without pre-pandemic PTSD.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2026Article
- A Descriptive Analysis of Suicide Trends by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Age Categories in Santa Clara County, California From 2018 to 2023.AJPM focus · 2026Article
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- Suicide and occupation: spatial patterns in Chapecó (SC) and contextualization of the temporal trend in the national scenario, 2006-2024.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Mental health status of workers in the semiconductor industry during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparisons between regions on three continents.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A Comparative Analysis of Opioid Overdose Hospitalizations Pre- and Post-Pandemic: Insights from the National Inpatient Sample Database.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2026Article
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Abstract
Synthesizing evidence to examine changes in suicide-related outcomes before and during the pandemic can inform suicide management during the COVID-19 crisis. We searched 13 databases as of December 2022 for studies reporting both the pre- and peri-pandemic prevalence of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, or rate of death by suicide. A random-effects model was used to pool the ratio of peri- and pre-pandemic prevalence of suicidal ideation and attempt (Prevalence Ratio-PR) and rate of death by suicide (Rate Ratio; RR). We identified 51, 55, and 25 samples for suicidal ideation, attempt, and death by suicide. The prevalence of suicidal ideation increased significantly among non-clinical (PR = 1.142; 95% CI: 1.018-1.282;
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