Factors Associated With Suicide Ideation in Lithuania and Poland Amid                     the COVID-19 Pandemic

Geležėlytė, Odeta; Dragan, Małgorzata; Grajewski, Piotr; Kvedaraitė, Monika; Lotzin, Annett; Skrodzka, Magdalena; Nomeikaitė, Augustė; Kazlauskas, Evaldas

doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000814

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“…Such high estimates may be linked to general suicidality; it remains unclear, however, to what extent did the pandemic specifically affect students’ suicidal ideation and behavior. Previous research indicate pandemic-related stressors such as impaired family functioning, loneliness, and burden due to staying at home to be strongly related to suicidal ideation [ 95 , 96 ]. Our study, however, did not highlight any of the pandemic-associated variables to be significantly predictive for suicidal ideation, planning or attempt during the last year.…”

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Mental Health among Higher Education Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Lithuania

Žilinskas

Žulpaitė

Puteikis

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Mental health issues—anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation and behavior—are prevalent among students of higher education. The COVID-19 pandemic further affected students’ daily life through academic and socioeconomic disturbances. We set out to investigate students’ mental health amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and conducted a cross-sectional online survey at higher education institutions in Lithuania in 2021. The questionnaire consisted of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS) and the Sense of Coherence scale (SOC-3) questionnaires, evaluation of suicidal risk, experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and self-rated health status (SRHS). Among 1001 students who completed the survey, the prevalence of clinically relevant anxiety was high (46.6%) and contrasted with the lower prevalence of depression (11.1%). 37.5% of all students admitted that they had thought about suicide at least once during their lifetime and a similar number of students thought about suicide during the previous year. High levels of anxiety and depression were statistically significant predictors of suicidal ideation and planning during the past year in binary regression models. High SRHS (higher score refers to more positive health status) was the only significant independent variable associated with less frequent suicidal attempts in the past year (p < 0.01, OR = 0.29, 95% CI = 0.12 to 0.66). Our study highlights anxiety and suicidality to be burdensome mental health issues among higher education students in Lithuania during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mental Health among Higher Education Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Lithuania

Žilinskas

Žulpaitė

Puteikis

et al. 2021

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“…también se describe una disminución global de las tasas de suicidio durante el confinamiento, aunque con aumento en determinadas clases sociales 9 . Otros, sin embargo, sí que detectaron un aumento de las ideas de suicidio en relación con los problemas de adaptación, la soledad y la sobrecarga por tener que estar más tiempo en casa debido al confinamiento 10,11 .…”

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Suicidal attempt and suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years

Jerónimo¹,

Piñar²,

Samos³

et al. 2021

Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental

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“…In descriptions post-pandemic, it was reported that social isolation, anxiety, fear of contagion, uncertainty, chronic stress and economic difficulties can contribute to the development or exacerbation of stress-related illnesses and suicide 33 . In Poland and Lithuania, it was found that high levels of adjustment problems, loneliness and staying longer at home during the COVID-19 pandemic were significantly associated with suicidal ideation 34 .…”

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Factors associated with suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic in a population in the Brazilian Legal Amazon

Terças-Trettel

Muraro

Oliveira

et al. 2022

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This article aims to analyze the factors associated with suicidal ideation in the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional home-based survey, with three-stage cluster sampling, was conducted with 4,203 adults from ten municipalities in the Mato Grosso, Brazil. The data collection was carried households to assessment of sociodemographic characteristics, substance use and behavior in the pandemic. The Level 1 Symptom Cross Scale was used to identify suicidal ideation and aspects of mental health (somatic symptoms, sleep disturbances, dissociation, depression, anger, mania, anxiety, thoughts, substance use and memory). Chemiluminescence was used to detect IgG anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The prevalence of suicidal ideation was 19.2%, and the associated with increased consumption of alcohol (RP=1.16), smoking (RP=1.30), COVID-19 symptoms (RP=1.03), having one’s life affected (RP=1.04), mental illness (RP=1.09) somatic symptoms (RP=1.15), sleep disturbance (RP=1.30), dissociation (RP=1.24), depression (RP=1.24), anger (RP=1.11), anxiety (RP=1.26), substance use (RP=1.19), drug prescription use (RP=1.18) and memory (RP=1.87). Highlights the high prevalence of suicidal ideation related to COVID-19 symptoms, changes in behavior post-pandemic and mental health factors.

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Factors Associated With Suicide Ideation in Lithuania and Poland Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Mental Health among Higher Education Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Lithuania

Mental Health among Higher Education Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Lithuania

Suicidal attempt and suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years

Factors associated with suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic in a population in the Brazilian Legal Amazon

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