ReviewPCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences2024
Suicide mortality rates in Japan before and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic era.
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- Cultural factors and suicide: A proposal for taxonomy.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Review
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- Difference in trends in suicide mortality rates by marital status and age groups from 2000 to 2020 in Japan.PloS one · 2026Article
- A Pilot Qualitative Study to Better Understand the Factors Related to Suicides and Inform Public Health Action Across a Predominantly Coastal and Rural Area: Cornwall, Southwest of England.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Screening and understanding adolescents with money worries via a web-based stress check: A latent class analysis.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Suicides Mortality of Unemployed Individuals Becomes a Serious Public Health Concern in Japan in Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- National Policy, Service Delivery, Programs, and Data for Suicide Prevention in Korea.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Epidemiological Analysis of Suicidal Behaviour in Spain from 2017 to 2022 and Comparative Perspectives with Japan: A Retrospective Observational Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- 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
- Suicide mortality rates in Japan before and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic era.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Review
- Temporal Fluctuations of Suicide Mortality in Japan from 2009 to 2023 Using Government Databases.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- Impacts of Working Hours, Wages, and Regular Employment Opportunity on Suicide Mortalities of Employed and Unemployed Individuals before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Statistical analyses from Japan reported increasing suicides in 2020, first in the world, proving the severity of the public health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, so far, international suicides have not been shown to be objectively increasing at population level. Followed studies reported the existence of a substantial heterogeneity of suicides among subgroups and time-lag impacts. Against public health crisis in Japan, policymakers, psychiatrists and public health personnel should prioritize improving suicide prevention programs following evidence-based policymaking. Understanding how/what factors relate to the COVID-19 pandemic and what other factors have shaped the increasing suicide numbers since 2020 through objectively well-controlled/fine-grained analyses of high-quality longitudinal/cross-sectional data at the individual, regional, and national levels is important for identifying the reasons for the recent trend. For this purpose, this study examined suicide statistics, statistical analysis methods, and their interpretations. Recent analyses suggest an increased suicide risk among females <50 years and males <30 years in 2020-2022. Notably, time-series analyses revealed that adolescent suicides began increasing before the pandemic, while working-age female suicides sharply increased synchronously with the pandemic outbreak. Causality analyses suggest that social issues facing Japan and recent global psychosocial and socioeconomic transformations are risk factors for suicide in high-risk groups. Finally, this report demonstrates the importance of providing appropriate support based on an objective understanding of individuals who are at risk for suicide, without being bound by traditional established knowledges.
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