Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark

Danielsen, Stine A.; Joensen, Andrea; Andersen, Per Kragh; Madsen, Trine; Strandberg‐Larsen, Katrine

doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01511-7

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“…We cannot discount that some individual’s mental health may have been affected badly, but this medium-term null effect would imply that others equally flourished from lockdowns if that were the case. The same lockdown resilience has been observed in Europe (Danielsen et al, 2023; Van den Boom et al, 2023). While we acknowledge that no doubt for some lockdowns had a significant effect, the evidence from overall mortality over the time of COVID-19 and since, and the mental health sequelae specifically to lockdown periods, rather than other COVID impacts, do not indicate that lockdowns were either a ‘deadly policy option’ or even had significant medium-term mental health consequences.…”

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Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’

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Morris

2023

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Pai and Vella, 2021) identified loneliness during lockdowns as contributing to depression in the post-lockdown period. In Victoria, where restrictions and curfews were maximally onerous, the most dramatic increase in suicides was seen in the 65+ cohort in whom loneliness is already a public health epidemic.Beyond suicides, 'deaths of despair' also appear to have risen due to pandemic lockdowns. During lockdowns, many poorer Australians who were unable to work from home and barred from normal socialising will have turned to substance use. Bottle shops remained open when most other businesses underwent forced closures. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2021), the death rate from alcohol in 2021 was the highest in 10 years. The ABS has also recorded new peaks since 2019 in drug-and alcohol-related deaths with secondary mental and behavioural disorders. In such cases, it can be almost impossible to disambiguate deliberate and accidental overdoses.We believe that more research is needed to fully gauge the scale of the serious and sustained impacts of lockdowns on mental health which have, until recently, 'flown under the research radar'. The weight of emerging evidence suggests strongly that lockdowns are a deadly policy option, especially for the most vulnerable groups in society.

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Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’

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Morris

2023

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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“…Finally, while the present study clearly shows that we need not be overly concerned about the general population’s mental health in relation to the covid-19 pandemic, reported prevalence rates of mental health symptoms, especially among adolescents, are still concerningly high 101112. Pandemic or not, there is a strong need to provide preventive mental health interventions for those most at risk of poor mental health outcomes.…”

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Mental health and the covid-19 pandemic

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Madsen

2023

BMJ

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“…Suicide rates increased in India in the first year of the pandemic, with male suicides increasing most in 2020 compared to previous years ( 55 ). However, in Denmark, contrary to the rise in suicides is the proportion of self-inflicted injuries decreased for both women and men after the pandemic, but the decrease for men was smaller than that for women: 5.7% for women and 3.2% for men ( 27 ).…”

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COVID-19, new challenges to human safety: a global review

Aikebaier

2024

Front. Public Health

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In the context of sustainable human development, human safety has gradually shifted from traditional state and political conflict to social conflict and horizontal inequality, and the pandemic has exacerbated this variation risk. This narrative review includes literature from 40 countries on five continents since 2020, explored and tidy up the impacts of pandemics on human safety based on three perspectives: personal safety, family safety and social safety, refined the macroscopic concept of human safety. The comprehensibility of the global review conclusions is enhanced by combining it with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Finally, some novel and comparative results are included to broaden the understanding of the impact of the pandemic, and help policymaker better understand human safety changes from a new perspective.

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Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark

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Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’

Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’

Mental health and the covid-19 pandemic

COVID-19, new challenges to human safety: a global review

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