Aggregated COVID-19 suicide incidences in India: Fear of COVID-19 infection is the prominent causative factor

Many Indian COVID-19 suicide cases are turning the press-media attention and flooding in the social media platforms although, no particular studies assessed the COVID-19 suicide causative factors to a large extent. Therefore, the present study presents 69 COVID-19 suicide cases (aged 19 to 65 years;...

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Autores principales: Dsouza, Deena Dimple, Quadros, Shalini, Hyderabadwala, Zainab Juzer, Mamun, Mohammed A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32544650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113145
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description Many Indian COVID-19 suicide cases are turning the press-media attention and flooding in the social media platforms although, no particular studies assessed the COVID-19 suicide causative factors to a large extent. Therefore, the present study presents 69 COVID-19 suicide cases (aged 19 to 65 years; 63 cases were males). The suicide causalities are included as follows – fear of COVID-19 infection (n=21), followed by financial crisis (n=19), loneliness, social boycott and pressure to be quarantine, COVID-19 positive, COVID-19 work-related stress, unable to come back home due to lockdown, unavailability of alcohol etc. Considering the extreme psychological impacts related to COVID-19, there emerges a need for countrywide extensive tele-mental health care services.
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spelling pubmed-78327132021-01-26 Aggregated COVID-19 suicide incidences in India: Fear of COVID-19 infection is the prominent causative factor Dsouza, Deena Dimple Quadros, Shalini Hyderabadwala, Zainab Juzer Mamun, Mohammed A. Psychiatry Res Letter to the Editor Many Indian COVID-19 suicide cases are turning the press-media attention and flooding in the social media platforms although, no particular studies assessed the COVID-19 suicide causative factors to a large extent. Therefore, the present study presents 69 COVID-19 suicide cases (aged 19 to 65 years; 63 cases were males). The suicide causalities are included as follows – fear of COVID-19 infection (n=21), followed by financial crisis (n=19), loneliness, social boycott and pressure to be quarantine, COVID-19 positive, COVID-19 work-related stress, unable to come back home due to lockdown, unavailability of alcohol etc. Considering the extreme psychological impacts related to COVID-19, there emerges a need for countrywide extensive tele-mental health care services. Elsevier B.V. 2020-08 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7832713/ /pubmed/32544650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113145 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832713/
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