ArticleEnvironmental and occupational health practice2026
Changes in the proportion of suicides attributed to work-related problems before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
Article in Environmental and occupational health practice, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objectives: To examine changes in suicides attributed to work-related problems in Japan before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, with attention to sex differences. Methods: Monthly suicide data from January 2017 to February 2026 were obtained from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan. The study period was divided into four phases: pre-emergency period (January 2017-March 2020), COVID-19 period (April 2020-December 2021), COVID-19 period after classification change (January 2022-May 2023), and post-COVID-19 period (June 2023-February 2026). Negative binomial regression models including the logarithm of monthly total suicides as an offset were used to examine the proportion of suicides attributed to work-related problems among all suicides according to period and sex. Supplementary analyses examined within-period temporal trends. Results: During the study period, 188,178 suicides were recorded, including 20,822 recorded as involving work-related problems. In the offset model, among men, the proportion of suicides attributed to work-related problems was lower during the COVID-19 period than during the pre-emergency period (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 0.920; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.859-0.986), but higher during the COVID-19 period after classification change (IRR, 1.389; 95% CI, 1.297-1.486) and the post-COVID-19 period (IRR, 1.261; 95% CI, 1.184-1.342). The relative change was more positive among women during the COVID-19 period and the post-COVID-19 period. Conclusions: Work-related problems were more frequently represented in suicide statistics after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, although part of the increase after 2022 may reflect the revision of official classification.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.