Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics

Using daily vital statistics data from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, we provide the first weekly and age-group-specific estimates of the additional suicide burden during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan by gender, from January through November 2020. Our results indicate that com...

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Autores principales: Eguchi, Akifumi, Nomura, Shuhei, Gilmour, Stuart, Harada, Nahoko, Sakamoto, Haruka, Ueda, Peter, Yoneoka, Daisuke, Tanoue, Yuta, Kawashima, Takayuki, Hayashi, Takehiko I., Arima, Yuzo, Suzuki, Motoi, Hashizume, Masahiro
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34469804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114173
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author Eguchi, Akifumi
Nomura, Shuhei
Gilmour, Stuart
Harada, Nahoko
Sakamoto, Haruka
Ueda, Peter
Yoneoka, Daisuke
Tanoue, Yuta
Kawashima, Takayuki
Hayashi, Takehiko I.
Arima, Yuzo
Suzuki, Motoi
Hashizume, Masahiro
author_facet Eguchi, Akifumi
Nomura, Shuhei
Gilmour, Stuart
Harada, Nahoko
Sakamoto, Haruka
Ueda, Peter
Yoneoka, Daisuke
Tanoue, Yuta
Kawashima, Takayuki
Hayashi, Takehiko I.
Arima, Yuzo
Suzuki, Motoi
Hashizume, Masahiro
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description Using daily vital statistics data from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, we provide the first weekly and age-group-specific estimates of the additional suicide burden during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan by gender, from January through November 2020. Our results indicate that compared with the previous five years, suicide cases in 2020 in Japan have increased from late July to November for women in all age groups and for men in the 20–29 and 80+ years age group. Targeted interventions based on age and gender might be more effective in reducing suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
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spelling pubmed-87636322022-01-18 Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics Eguchi, Akifumi Nomura, Shuhei Gilmour, Stuart Harada, Nahoko Sakamoto, Haruka Ueda, Peter Yoneoka, Daisuke Tanoue, Yuta Kawashima, Takayuki Hayashi, Takehiko I. Arima, Yuzo Suzuki, Motoi Hashizume, Masahiro Psychiatry Res Article Using daily vital statistics data from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, we provide the first weekly and age-group-specific estimates of the additional suicide burden during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan by gender, from January through November 2020. Our results indicate that compared with the previous five years, suicide cases in 2020 in Japan have increased from late July to November for women in all age groups and for men in the 20–29 and 80+ years age group. Targeted interventions based on age and gender might be more effective in reducing suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-11 2021-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8763632/ /pubmed/34469804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114173 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.
spellingShingle Article
Eguchi, Akifumi
Nomura, Shuhei
Gilmour, Stuart
Harada, Nahoko
Sakamoto, Haruka
Ueda, Peter
Yoneoka, Daisuke
Tanoue, Yuta
Kawashima, Takayuki
Hayashi, Takehiko I.
Arima, Yuzo
Suzuki, Motoi
Hashizume, Masahiro
Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics
title Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics
title_full Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics
title_fullStr Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics
title_full_unstemmed Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics
title_short Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics
title_sort suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the covid-19 pandemic vs previous five years in japan: an analysis of national vital statistics
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34469804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114173
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