Trends in suicide deaths before and after the COVID-19 outbreak in Korea.
PLoS One
; 17(9): e0273637, 2022.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2021931
ABSTRACT
We investigated the effect of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on suicide trends in Korea via a time-series analysis. We used Facebook Prophet to generate forecasting models based on the monthly numbers of suicide deaths in Korea between 1997 and 2018, validated the models by comparison with the 2019 numbers, and predicted the numbers of suicides in 2020. We compared the expected and observed numbers of suicides during the COVID-19 pandemic. The total numbers of suicides during the COVID-19 pandemic did not deviate from projections based on the pre-pandemic period. However, the number of suicides among women and those under the age of 34 years significantly exceeded the expected level. The COVID-19 pandemic did not increase the overall suicide rate significantly. However, suicides among women and young people increased, suggesting that the pandemic might drive more members of these groups to suicide. Further studies are needed to verify the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide.
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Coleções:
Bases de dados internacionais
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Suicídio
/
COVID-19
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo experimental
/
Estudo observacional
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Estudo prognóstico
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Ensaios controlados aleatorizados
Limite:
Adolescente
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Adulto
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Feminino
/
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
PLoS One
Assunto da revista:
Ciência
/
Medicina
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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