Suicide attempts and Covid-19 in prison: Empirical findings from 2016 to 2020 in a Swiss prison

Disadvantaged populations have an increased risk of suicide and suicide attempts because of the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, few studies focused on people living in detention, who have a high burden of mental health problems and are exposed to severe control measures. Our study investigated whether t...

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Autores principales: Gétaz, Laurent, Wolff, Hans, Golay, Diane, Heller, Patrick, Baggio, Stéphanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8526064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34271371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114107
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description Disadvantaged populations have an increased risk of suicide and suicide attempts because of the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, few studies focused on people living in detention, who have a high burden of mental health problems and are exposed to severe control measures. Our study investigated whether there was an increase in suicide attempts in prison. Data were collected in the largest Swiss pre-trial prison (Champ-Dollon) for the pre-pandemic and the pandemic periods. We identified a statistically significant 57%-increase of suicide attempts. Mitigation measures, access to mental health care, and access to vaccination are needed to protect this vulnerable population.
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spelling pubmed-85260642021-10-20 Suicide attempts and Covid-19 in prison: Empirical findings from 2016 to 2020 in a Swiss prison Gétaz, Laurent Wolff, Hans Golay, Diane Heller, Patrick Baggio, Stéphanie Psychiatry Res Article Disadvantaged populations have an increased risk of suicide and suicide attempts because of the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, few studies focused on people living in detention, who have a high burden of mental health problems and are exposed to severe control measures. Our study investigated whether there was an increase in suicide attempts in prison. Data were collected in the largest Swiss pre-trial prison (Champ-Dollon) for the pre-pandemic and the pandemic periods. We identified a statistically significant 57%-increase of suicide attempts. Mitigation measures, access to mental health care, and access to vaccination are needed to protect this vulnerable population. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-09 2021-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8526064/ /pubmed/34271371 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114107 Text en © 2021 The Authors 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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Suicide attempts and Covid-19 in prison: Empirical findings from 2016 to 2020 in a Swiss prison
title Suicide attempts and Covid-19 in prison: Empirical findings from 2016 to 2020 in a Swiss prison
title_full Suicide attempts and Covid-19 in prison: Empirical findings from 2016 to 2020 in a Swiss prison
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title_short Suicide attempts and Covid-19 in prison: Empirical findings from 2016 to 2020 in a Swiss prison
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114107
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