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COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has influenced the entire world. There has been great surge of mental health problems after the pandemic has started. The second wave has almost exhausted the Indian Health care system. There has also been cases of suicide due to COVID-19 infection. The ob...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36352977 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1517_21 |
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author | Sheikh, Nishat Ahmed Vasudeva, Abhimanyu Tripathi, Richa |
author_facet | Sheikh, Nishat Ahmed Vasudeva, Abhimanyu Tripathi, Richa |
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description | The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has influenced the entire world. There has been great surge of mental health problems after the pandemic has started. The second wave has almost exhausted the Indian Health care system. There has also been cases of suicide due to COVID-19 infection. The objective of study was to highlight various factors involved in COVID-19 related suicide (CRS) during second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India. CRS reports on the websites of 10 popular newspapers and television news channels in North India and official government websites such as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare were searched between February 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021. We also searched the Medline and Google Scholar databases for CRS reports from India using the terms “corona”, “COVID-19”, “SARS CoV 2”, “India”, and “suicide” in various combinations. A total of 62 articles were included for the study. Most common mode of suicide was hanging and most common site was the deceased’s home. Fear of infecting family members was the most common cause of CRS during second wave of the ongoing pandemic in India. Many individuals lost their lives to suicide due to COVID-19 pandemic. The media report does not provide the exact picture of community suicide. Proper physician counselling at the time of providing treatment can help in reducing few CRS. |
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spelling | pubmed-96386762022-11-08 COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems Sheikh, Nishat Ahmed Vasudeva, Abhimanyu Tripathi, Richa J Family Med Prim Care Review Article The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has influenced the entire world. There has been great surge of mental health problems after the pandemic has started. The second wave has almost exhausted the Indian Health care system. There has also been cases of suicide due to COVID-19 infection. The objective of study was to highlight various factors involved in COVID-19 related suicide (CRS) during second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India. CRS reports on the websites of 10 popular newspapers and television news channels in North India and official government websites such as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare were searched between February 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021. We also searched the Medline and Google Scholar databases for CRS reports from India using the terms “corona”, “COVID-19”, “SARS CoV 2”, “India”, and “suicide” in various combinations. A total of 62 articles were included for the study. Most common mode of suicide was hanging and most common site was the deceased’s home. Fear of infecting family members was the most common cause of CRS during second wave of the ongoing pandemic in India. Many individuals lost their lives to suicide due to COVID-19 pandemic. The media report does not provide the exact picture of community suicide. Proper physician counselling at the time of providing treatment can help in reducing few CRS. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-08 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9638676/ /pubmed/36352977 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1517_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Sheikh, Nishat Ahmed Vasudeva, Abhimanyu Tripathi, Richa COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems |
title | COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems |
title_full | COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems |
title_fullStr | COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems |
title_short | COVID-Related suicide during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India: A tip of the iceberg of mental health problems |
title_sort | covid-related suicide during the second wave of covid-19 pandemic in india: a tip of the iceberg of mental health problems |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36352977 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1517_21 |
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