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Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates

INTRODUCTION: An increase of suicidal thinking within the COVID-19 pandemic has been postulated. Yet, direct comparisons with pre-COVID-19 rates are missing. METHODS: The present study investigated whether levels and rates of suicidal ideation have changed between 2016 and 2020. Data of N = 664 univ...

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Autores principales: Brailovskaia, Julia, Teismann, Tobias, Friedrich, Sören, Schneider, Silvia, Margraf, Jürgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34632441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100228
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author Brailovskaia, Julia
Teismann, Tobias
Friedrich, Sören
Schneider, Silvia
Margraf, Jürgen
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Teismann, Tobias
Friedrich, Sören
Schneider, Silvia
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description INTRODUCTION: An increase of suicidal thinking within the COVID-19 pandemic has been postulated. Yet, direct comparisons with pre-COVID-19 rates are missing. METHODS: The present study investigated whether levels and rates of suicidal ideation have changed between 2016 and 2020. Data of N = 664 university students (five cohorts: 2016: n = 105, 2017: n = 117, 2018: n = 108, 2019: n = 154, 2020: n = 180) were collected by online surveys. RESULTS: The rate of students suffering from suicidal ideation was twice as high in 2020 than in previous years. Furthermore, levels of suicidal thinking and of depression were higher in 2020 than in 2019 and 2016. LIMITATIONS: The sample size of the current study was rather modest and suicide ideation was assessed with a single item only. CONCLUSIONS: The rate of students suffering from suicidal ideation was twice as high in 2020 than in previous years. Help-lines and online counselling should be promoted to the public and the possibilities of telepsychotherapy for suicidal people should be used and expanded.
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spelling pubmed-84889812021-10-04 Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates Brailovskaia, Julia Teismann, Tobias Friedrich, Sören Schneider, Silvia Margraf, Jürgen J Affect Disord Rep Article INTRODUCTION: An increase of suicidal thinking within the COVID-19 pandemic has been postulated. Yet, direct comparisons with pre-COVID-19 rates are missing. METHODS: The present study investigated whether levels and rates of suicidal ideation have changed between 2016 and 2020. Data of N = 664 university students (five cohorts: 2016: n = 105, 2017: n = 117, 2018: n = 108, 2019: n = 154, 2020: n = 180) were collected by online surveys. RESULTS: The rate of students suffering from suicidal ideation was twice as high in 2020 than in previous years. Furthermore, levels of suicidal thinking and of depression were higher in 2020 than in 2019 and 2016. LIMITATIONS: The sample size of the current study was rather modest and suicide ideation was assessed with a single item only. CONCLUSIONS: The rate of students suffering from suicidal ideation was twice as high in 2020 than in previous years. Help-lines and online counselling should be promoted to the public and the possibilities of telepsychotherapy for suicidal people should be used and expanded. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-12 2021-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8488981/ /pubmed/34632441 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100228 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) 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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Schneider, Silvia
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Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates
title Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates
title_full Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates
title_fullStr Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates
title_full_unstemmed Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates
title_short Suicide ideation during the COVID-19 outbreak in German university students: Comparison with pre-COVID 19 rates
title_sort suicide ideation during the covid-19 outbreak in german university students: comparison with pre-covid 19 rates
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488981/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100228
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