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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India
The economic and social devastation wrought by the COVID-19 crisiscoupled with the unavailability of traditional coping resources is a “perfect storm” for suicide. Evidence suggests that its impact may be disproportionately high in low-and-middle-income countries. The study aimed to assess and compa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760196/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33887672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102649 |
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author | Kar, Sujita Kumar Menon, Vikas Arafat, S.M. Yasir Rai, Sagar Kaliamoorthy, Charanya Akter, Hasina Shukla, Shreya Sharma, Nivedita Roy, Deblina Sridhar, Vivekanandan Kavanoor |
author_facet | Kar, Sujita Kumar Menon, Vikas Arafat, S.M. Yasir Rai, Sagar Kaliamoorthy, Charanya Akter, Hasina Shukla, Shreya Sharma, Nivedita Roy, Deblina Sridhar, Vivekanandan Kavanoor |
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description | The economic and social devastation wrought by the COVID-19 crisiscoupled with the unavailability of traditional coping resources is a “perfect storm” for suicide. Evidence suggests that its impact may be disproportionately high in low-and-middle-income countries. The study aimed to assess and compare nature and correlates of suicidesfrom news reportsduring the immediate pre-lockdown and lockdown phase of COVID-19 in Bangladesh and India. We performed analysis of suicide reports from purposively selected online vernacular and English newspapers of Bangladesh and two states/union territory in India, between January to June 2020. We divided the time period of observation into two phases: pre-lockdown and lockdown phase. Country wise findings between the two phases were compared in terms of demographic and characteristics of the reported suicide. A total of 769 news reports wereanalysed; 141 from Bangladesh and 628 from India. When compared to the pre-lockdown period, the odds of suicide by hanging was significantly higher during lockdownin India (adjusted Odds Ratios [aOR] = 3.8, p = 0.018) and Bangladesh (aOR = 3.1, p = 0.048). Suicide demographics in India were different from Bangladesh during lockdown; more males died by suicide in India (aOR = 2.7, p = 0.023) and more people died by hanging (aOR = 2.6, p = 0.029). The pandemic restrictions impacted suicide demographics in the studied regions of India and Bangladesh. Further research using population-based time-series data are warranted to investigate the issue. |
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spelling | pubmed-97601962022-12-19 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India Kar, Sujita Kumar Menon, Vikas Arafat, S.M. Yasir Rai, Sagar Kaliamoorthy, Charanya Akter, Hasina Shukla, Shreya Sharma, Nivedita Roy, Deblina Sridhar, Vivekanandan Kavanoor Asian J Psychiatr Article The economic and social devastation wrought by the COVID-19 crisiscoupled with the unavailability of traditional coping resources is a “perfect storm” for suicide. Evidence suggests that its impact may be disproportionately high in low-and-middle-income countries. The study aimed to assess and compare nature and correlates of suicidesfrom news reportsduring the immediate pre-lockdown and lockdown phase of COVID-19 in Bangladesh and India. We performed analysis of suicide reports from purposively selected online vernacular and English newspapers of Bangladesh and two states/union territory in India, between January to June 2020. We divided the time period of observation into two phases: pre-lockdown and lockdown phase. Country wise findings between the two phases were compared in terms of demographic and characteristics of the reported suicide. A total of 769 news reports wereanalysed; 141 from Bangladesh and 628 from India. When compared to the pre-lockdown period, the odds of suicide by hanging was significantly higher during lockdownin India (adjusted Odds Ratios [aOR] = 3.8, p = 0.018) and Bangladesh (aOR = 3.1, p = 0.048). Suicide demographics in India were different from Bangladesh during lockdown; more males died by suicide in India (aOR = 2.7, p = 0.023) and more people died by hanging (aOR = 2.6, p = 0.029). The pandemic restrictions impacted suicide demographics in the studied regions of India and Bangladesh. Further research using population-based time-series data are warranted to investigate the issue. Elsevier B.V. 2021-06 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9760196/ /pubmed/33887672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102649 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 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 Kar, Sujita Kumar Menon, Vikas Arafat, S.M. Yasir Rai, Sagar Kaliamoorthy, Charanya Akter, Hasina Shukla, Shreya Sharma, Nivedita Roy, Deblina Sridhar, Vivekanandan Kavanoor Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India |
title | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on Suicide: Analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in Bangladesh and India |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 pandemic related lockdown on suicide: analysis of newspaper reports during pre-lockdown and lockdown period in bangladesh and india |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760196/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33887672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102649 |
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