Suicide in the context of COVID-19 diagnosis in India: Insights and implications from online print media reports

Sripad, Madhumitha Nanditale; Pantoji, Makarand Vishwanath; Gowda, Guru S; Ganjekar, Sundarnag; Reddi, Venkata Senthil Kumar; Math, Suresh Bada

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113799

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“…The study can be partially limited because of extracting suicide causalities from press media, although the method has been applied by previous research on pandemic-related suicide studies (e.g., Dsouza et al, 2020;Jahan et al, 2021;Panigrahi et al, 2021;Sripad et al, 2021;Syed & Griffiths, 2020). Besides, the suicide risk factors reported herein has limited face value of taking as factual because psychological autopsies were not performed.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Suicide among adolescents and youths during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdowns: A press media reports‐based exploratory study

Manzar

Albougami

Usman

et al. 2021

Child Adoles Psych Nursing

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Problem Suicide incidences among adolescents and youths during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) lockdowns have been reported across the world. However, no studies have been carried out to investigate cumulative nature, patterns, and causative factors of such suicide incidences. Methods A purposive sampling of Google news between 15 February and 6 July was performed. After excluding duplicate reports, the final list comprised a total of 37‐suicide cases across 11 countries. Findings More male suicides were reported (21‐cases, i.e., 56.76%), and the mean age of the total victims was 16.6 ± 2.7 years (out of a total of 29 cases). About two‐thirds of the suicides were from three countries named India (11‐cases), UK (8‐cases), and the USA (6‐cases). Out of 23‐student victims, 14 were school‐going students. Hanging was the most common suicide method accounting in 51.4% of cases. The most common suicide causalities were related to mental sufferings such as depression, loneliness, psychological distress, and so forth, whereas either online schooling or overwhelming academic distress was placed as the second most suicide stressors followed by TikTok addiction‐related psychological distress, and tested with the COVID‐19. Conclusions The finding of the temporal distribution of suicides concerning lockdowns may help in exploring and evolving public measures to prevent/decrease pandemic‐related suicides in young people.

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“…Moreover, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the methods have been often used to perform suicide research works (e.g., Dsouza et al, 2020;Jahan et al, 2021;Panigrahi et al, 2021;Sripad et al, 2021;Syed & Griffiths, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Suicide among adolescents and youths during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdowns: A press media reports‐based exploratory study

Manzar

Albougami

Usman

et al. 2021

Child Adoles Psych Nursing

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“…A systematic review looking at COVID-19-related suicide trends in Bangladesh found the prevalence of suicidal ideations to range between 5–19% and to increase as the pandemic progressed [ 46 ]. Another study found that the risk of COVID-19-related suicide increased within the first week of diagnosis, particularly during the acute phase while receiving treatment in a hospital [ 47 ]. This sheds light on the possible difference in suicide trends according to the phase of illness, namely between the acute phase of the infection and the post-COVID-19 phase.…”

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Emerging Psychiatric Themes in Post-COVID-19 Patients on a Psychiatry Consultation-liaison Service

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The need for consultation-liaison psychiatry on COVID-19 wards has substantially increased since the start of the pandemic. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to summarize the characteristics of patients admitted to the post-COVID-19 ward of the American University of Beirut Medical Center who received a psychiatric consultation. We collected relevant sociodemographic and medical data, information about past psychiatric history, psychiatry consultation details, hospital course, and disposition outcome. We also conducted chi-square and binary logistic regression analyses to assess the association between the different variables and disposition outcome. A total of 52 patients (mean age 57.33 years; equal gender distribution) were seen by the psychiatry consult-liaison team. Most had medical comorbidities and 21.2% required intubation. The most prevalent psychiatric diagnoses were delirium (30.8%), major depressive episode (15.4%), and other anxiety disorder (15.4%). Pharmacological management was implemented in 90.4% of cases and mainly included second-generation antipsychotics (36.5%). Non-pharmacological interventions consisted of those related to delirium and therapy for anxiety. Only intubation was significantly associated with disposition outcome ( p = 0.004). This study highlights the various psychiatric themes emerging during the acute and post-acute periods of hospitalization for COVID-19. Hospitalized individuals recovering from the infection should be diligently screened and referred to the psychiatry consultation-liaison team to ensure the implementation of appropriate interventions.

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“…Prior studies have highlighted that unemployment, sudden economic bankruptcy, alcoholism, interpersonal conflicts, marital disharmony, domestic violence, prior mental illness and prior suicide attempts are major risk factors for suicide ( Gururaj et al, 2004 , Nock et al, 2008 ). Taken together, of concern was the high probability that COVID-19 pandemic would increase suicides across the globe, with some recent literature demonstrating the same ( Sripad et al, 2021 ). In India, the impact was notably profound on marginalized groups and those employed in the informal sector (migrant workers, daily wage earners).…”

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“…Lacking basic daily necessities, unemployment, homelessness, financial crisis and emotional burden, they constituted a group highly vulnerable to extreme psychological distress and possibly suicide. The widespread fear and anxiety of contracting COVID-19 and stigma and discrimination faced by those infected, contributed to suicides during the pandemic ( Sripad et al, 2021 ). Suicides were reported across the world both in developed and developing countries, across the general population and among health care professionals ( Thakur and Jain, 2020 ).…”

Section: Pandemic Wavementioning

confidence: 99%

Suicide prevention in the context of COVID-19: An Indian perspective

Suchandra

Bhaskaran

Manjunatha

et al. 2021

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the health and wellbeing of communities worldwide. Measures to limit transmission, have enhanced vulnerability of individuals to well identified risk factors associated with mental illness and suicide. These include sense of loneliness, anxiety, depression, insomnia, harmful alcohol, PTSD and drug use. Given that the potential for increased rates of suicide persist, suicide prevention agenda remains urgent and essential. The same is one of the cornerstones of resilience in a society that will face an array of challenges due to this global pandemic. In this article, we recommend few possible strategies for attenuating suicide risk amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with particular relevance to the Indian context.

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Suicide in the context of COVID-19 diagnosis in India: Insights and implications from online print media reports

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Suicide among adolescents and youths during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdowns: A press media reports‐based exploratory study

Suicide among adolescents and youths during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdowns: A press media reports‐based exploratory study

Emerging Psychiatric Themes in Post-COVID-19 Patients on a Psychiatry Consultation-liaison Service

Suicide prevention in the context of COVID-19: An Indian perspective

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