Changes in suicide-related indices at a student counseling center at a Japanese University before and after COVID-19

Suicides by university students in Japan have increased with the onset of the COVID- 19 pandemic. Changes in the suicidality of clients in student counseling centers are unknown. We compared OQ 45.2, suicidal risk, and suicidality before and after the pandemic, testing 1801 clients at the Student Co...

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Autores principales: Otsuka, Hisashi, Fujiwara, Shoko, Takano, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9830837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36641967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103462
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description Suicides by university students in Japan have increased with the onset of the COVID- 19 pandemic. Changes in the suicidality of clients in student counseling centers are unknown. We compared OQ 45.2, suicidal risk, and suicidality before and after the pandemic, testing 1801 clients at the Student Counseling Center of University A in Japan. The post-group exhibited significantly decreases in all suicide-related indices. Results reveal that fewer students may feel suicidal and that the number of consultations with suicidal students may have decreased. It is important to build support systems easier for students to access in crises and alone.
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spelling pubmed-98308372023-01-10 Changes in suicide-related indices at a student counseling center at a Japanese University before and after COVID-19 Otsuka, Hisashi Fujiwara, Shoko Takano, Akira Asian J Psychiatr Article Suicides by university students in Japan have increased with the onset of the COVID- 19 pandemic. Changes in the suicidality of clients in student counseling centers are unknown. We compared OQ 45.2, suicidal risk, and suicidality before and after the pandemic, testing 1801 clients at the Student Counseling Center of University A in Japan. The post-group exhibited significantly decreases in all suicide-related indices. Results reveal that fewer students may feel suicidal and that the number of consultations with suicidal students may have decreased. It is important to build support systems easier for students to access in crises and alone. Elsevier B.V. 2023-03 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9830837/ /pubmed/36641967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103462 Text en © 2023 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.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103462
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