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ReviewInternational journal of preventive medicine2023

Prevalence of Suicide Ideation and Attempt during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Samira Tardeh, Amir Adibi, Ali Ashraf Mozafari

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Review in International journal of preventive medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Qualitative Content Analysis of COVID-19's Role in Suicide Attempts Leading to Hospital Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  9. Exploring adolescent suicide attempts before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samira TardehStudent Research Committee, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Amir AdibiPsychiatry Adolescent and Child of Department, Medicine of Faculty, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Ali Ashraf MozafariNon-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
Medical University of Ilam · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An epidemic of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 can affect mental health, which may be associated with suicidal behaviors. This study was conducted based on the systematic review and meta-analysis methods for evaluating the prevalence of suicide ideation during COVID-19. This study used Preferred Systematic Review Reporting System and Meta- Analysis guideline and valid keywords. The articles related to the prevalence of suicide ideation during COVID-19 pandemic were obtained by searching among different databases including Scopus, Web of science, PubMed, ISC, Google scholar, SID, and Magiran. All of the articles published from the beginning of January 2020 to the end of May 2021 were reviewed. Among 478 articles screened, 377 articles were related to the studied topic, among which 38 articles were selected after assessing the title and abstract of which for reviewing the full text and finally 18 studies were included in the meta-analysis. Based on the results, the prevalence of suicide ideation and attempt among all studies were equal to 13% (95% confidence interval = 0.11-0.15, I2 = 99.7%,

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COVID-19suicidal attemptsuicidal ideationsuicidal thought

Identifiers

PMID36942038
PMCPMC10023846
OpenAlexW4319988741

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