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Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: While repeated shutdown and lockdown measures helped contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and self-isolation negatively impacted global mental health in 2020 and 2021. Although suicide rates did reportedly not increase during the first months o...

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Autores principales: Maleitzke, Tazio, Zocholl, Dario, Topp, Tobias, Dimitrov-Discher, Annika, Daus, Elly, Reaux, Gabriel, Zocholl, Malin, Conze, Rolf Nicolas, Kolster, Moritz, Weber, Philipp, Fleckenstein, Florian Nima, Scheutz Henriksen, Louise, Stöckle, Ulrich, Fuchs, Thomas, Gümbel, Denis, Spranger, Nikolai, Ringk, Alexander, Märdian, Sven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9343723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35928775
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.927696
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author Maleitzke, Tazio
Zocholl, Dario
Topp, Tobias
Dimitrov-Discher, Annika
Daus, Elly
Reaux, Gabriel
Zocholl, Malin
Conze, Rolf Nicolas
Kolster, Moritz
Weber, Philipp
Fleckenstein, Florian Nima
Scheutz Henriksen, Louise
Stöckle, Ulrich
Fuchs, Thomas
Gümbel, Denis
Spranger, Nikolai
Ringk, Alexander
Märdian, Sven
author_facet Maleitzke, Tazio
Zocholl, Dario
Topp, Tobias
Dimitrov-Discher, Annika
Daus, Elly
Reaux, Gabriel
Zocholl, Malin
Conze, Rolf Nicolas
Kolster, Moritz
Weber, Philipp
Fleckenstein, Florian Nima
Scheutz Henriksen, Louise
Stöckle, Ulrich
Fuchs, Thomas
Gümbel, Denis
Spranger, Nikolai
Ringk, Alexander
Märdian, Sven
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description BACKGROUND: While repeated shutdown and lockdown measures helped contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and self-isolation negatively impacted global mental health in 2020 and 2021. Although suicide rates did reportedly not increase during the first months of the pandemic, long-term data, and data on the quality of serious violent suicide attempts (SVSAs) are not available to date. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Orthopaedic trauma patient visits to the emergency department (ED), ED trauma team activations, and SVSAs were retrospectively evaluated from January 2019 until May 2021 in four Level-I Trauma Centers in Berlin, Germany. SVSAs were assessed for suicide method, injury pattern and severity, type of treatment, and length of hospital stay. RESULTS: Significantly fewer orthopaedic trauma patients presented to EDs during the pandemic (n = 70,271) compared to the control (n = 84,864) period (p = 0.0017). ED trauma team activation numbers remained unchanged. SVSAs (corrected for seasonality) also remained unchanged during control (n = 138) and pandemic (n = 129) periods, and no differences were observed for suicide methods, injury patterns, or length of hospital stay. CONCLUSION: Our data emphasize that a previously reported rise in psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic does not coincide with increased SVSA rates or changes in quality of SVSAs.
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spelling pubmed-93437232022-08-03 Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic Maleitzke, Tazio Zocholl, Dario Topp, Tobias Dimitrov-Discher, Annika Daus, Elly Reaux, Gabriel Zocholl, Malin Conze, Rolf Nicolas Kolster, Moritz Weber, Philipp Fleckenstein, Florian Nima Scheutz Henriksen, Louise Stöckle, Ulrich Fuchs, Thomas Gümbel, Denis Spranger, Nikolai Ringk, Alexander Märdian, Sven Front Psychiatry Psychiatry BACKGROUND: While repeated shutdown and lockdown measures helped contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and self-isolation negatively impacted global mental health in 2020 and 2021. Although suicide rates did reportedly not increase during the first months of the pandemic, long-term data, and data on the quality of serious violent suicide attempts (SVSAs) are not available to date. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Orthopaedic trauma patient visits to the emergency department (ED), ED trauma team activations, and SVSAs were retrospectively evaluated from January 2019 until May 2021 in four Level-I Trauma Centers in Berlin, Germany. SVSAs were assessed for suicide method, injury pattern and severity, type of treatment, and length of hospital stay. RESULTS: Significantly fewer orthopaedic trauma patients presented to EDs during the pandemic (n = 70,271) compared to the control (n = 84,864) period (p = 0.0017). ED trauma team activation numbers remained unchanged. SVSAs (corrected for seasonality) also remained unchanged during control (n = 138) and pandemic (n = 129) periods, and no differences were observed for suicide methods, injury patterns, or length of hospital stay. CONCLUSION: Our data emphasize that a previously reported rise in psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic does not coincide with increased SVSA rates or changes in quality of SVSAs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9343723/ /pubmed/35928775 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.927696 Text en Copyright © 2022 Maleitzke, Zocholl, Topp, Dimitrov-Discher, Daus, Reaux, Zocholl, Conze, Kolster, Weber, Fleckenstein, Scheutz Henriksen, Stöckle, Fuchs, Gümbel, Spranger, Ringk and Märdian. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Maleitzke, Tazio
Zocholl, Dario
Topp, Tobias
Dimitrov-Discher, Annika
Daus, Elly
Reaux, Gabriel
Zocholl, Malin
Conze, Rolf Nicolas
Kolster, Moritz
Weber, Philipp
Fleckenstein, Florian Nima
Scheutz Henriksen, Louise
Stöckle, Ulrich
Fuchs, Thomas
Gümbel, Denis
Spranger, Nikolai
Ringk, Alexander
Märdian, Sven
Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic
title Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9343723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35928775
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.927696
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