SynthesisCurrent psychiatry reports2023
Suicide Following the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak: Variation Across Place, Over Time, and Across Sociodemographic Groups. A Systematic Integrative Review.
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- Mental Health Symptom Changes by Sex or Gender Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2026Pooled it
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- Rising trend among young adults: analysis of suicide-related deaths in Türkiye 2007-2022.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Associations Between COVID-19 Business and Social Gathering Restrictions and Deaths by Suicide in the United States: A Cross-Sectional County-Level Analysis.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Understanding Canadian experiences of suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic: protocol of a pan-Canadian qualitative study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- National Policy, Service Delivery, Programs, and Data for Suicide Prevention in Korea.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- The Trend in Suicide Risk Among People with HIV Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- A Latent Profile Analysis of Psychosis Symptoms to Examine Distress and Depression as Pathways to Suicide Ideation Among Individuals in an Early Phase of Psychosis Illness.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Symptomatic networks in suicide attempt and reattempt: Relevance of psychiatric comorbidity.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Suicide rates in Germany in lockdown and non-lockdown phases during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020/2021.PloS one · 2025Article
- All-Cause and Cause-Specific Excess Mortality During the First Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic in North-East of Iran: Reiterating the Significance of High-Quality Healthcare Systems.International journal of health policy and management · 2025Article
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- Temporal evolution of suicide by levels of rurality and deprivation among Japanese adults aged 20 years or over between 2009 and 2022.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Uncertainties of Economic Policy and Government Management Stability Played Important Roles in Increasing Suicides in Japan from 2009 to 2023.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Exploring factors associated with increased suicides during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A study using data from postmortem examinations conducted in an urban area.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
- The impact of the first year of COVID-19 pandemic on suicides in a collection of 27 EU-related countries.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Suicide in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study.BMJ public health · 2024Article
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purpose of reviewTo systematically examine changes in suicide trends following the initial COVID-19 outbreak, focusing on geographical and temporal heterogeneity and on differences across sociodemographic subgroups. RECENT
findingsOf 46 studies, 26 had low risk of bias. In general, suicides remained stable or decreased following the initial outbreak - however, suicide increases were detected during spring 2020 in Mexico, Nepal, India, Spain, and Hungary; and after summer 2020 in Japan. Trends were heterogeneous across sociodemographic groups (i.e., there were increases among racially minoritized individuals in the US, young adults and females across ages in Japan, older males in Brazil and Germany, and older adults across sex in China and Taiwan). Variations may be explained by differences in risk of COVID-19 contagion and death and in socioeconomic vulnerability. Monitoring geographical, temporal, and sociodemographic differences in suicide trends during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical to guide suicide prevention efforts.
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