Nationwide suicides due to alcohol withdrawal symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic: A review of cases from media reports

Syed, Nabeel Kashan; Griffiths, Mark D.

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.08.021

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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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“…Research‐based on detailed and aggregated analysis of press reports of suicides is a well‐established method for retrospective studies in those countries where no functional national suicide databases exist (Mamun & Griffiths, 2020b). 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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“…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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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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Suicide among adolescents and youths during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdowns: A press media reports‐based exploratory study

Manzar

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Usman

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Child Adoles Psych Nursing

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“…In the first few months of the viral pandemic, there were scattered media reports of individual instances of suicide ostensibly related to the effect of COVID-19 and several articles published in scientific journals that principally relied on such media reports (e.g., Mamun and Griffiths, 2020 ; Rajkumar, 2020 ; Syed and Griffiths, 2020 ). Other articles in scientific journals on the topic either based their observations/conclusions on non-databased theorizing or data derived from unrepresentative and inadequately designed cross-sectional surveys ( Charlier, 2021 ; Inoue et al, 2020 ).…”

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COVID-19 and suicide: Just the facts. Key learnings and guidance for action

Tandon

2021

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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“…Concerns have also been raised about the particular impact on certain groups, namely those actually infected (Rogers et al ., 2020), health care workers (Aquila et al ., 2020 a ; Reger et al ., 2020; Salazar de Pablo et al ., 2020), those with pre-existing psychiatric illness (Gunnell et al ., 2020) and the elderly (Aquila et al ., 2020 a ). Case series of suicides that are apparently related to the COVID-19 pandemic have emerged from India, Germany and Pakistan, highlighting issues of pre-existing mental health problems, fear of the pandemic, financial and occupational problems, loneliness, stigma related to infection and alcohol withdrawal (Ahmed et al ., 2020; Buschmann and Tsokos, 2020; Dsouza et al ., 2020; Mamun and Ullah, 2020; Rajkumar, 2020; Shoib et al ., 2020; Syed and Griffiths, 2020).…”

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Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Rogers

Chesney

Oliver

et al. 2021

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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Aims Suicide accounts for 2.2% of all years of life lost worldwide. We aimed to establish whether infectious epidemics are associated with any changes in the incidence of suicide or the period prevalence of self-harm, or thoughts of suicide or self-harm, with a secondary objective of establishing the frequency of these outcomes. Methods In this systematic review and meta-analysis, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO and AMED were searched from inception to 9 September 2020. Studies of infectious epidemics reporting outcomes of (a) death by suicide, (b) self-harm or (c) thoughts of suicide or self-harm were identified. A random-effects model meta-analysis for the period prevalence of thoughts of suicide or self-harm was conducted. Results In total, 1354 studies were screened with 57 meeting eligibility criteria, of which 7 described death by suicide, 9 by self-harm, and 45 thoughts of suicide or self-harm. The observation period ranged from 1910 to 2020 and included epidemics of Spanish Flu, severe acute respiratory syndrome, human monkeypox, Ebola virus disease and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Regarding death by suicide, data with a clear longitudinal comparison group were available for only two epidemics: SARS in Hong Kong, finding an increase in suicides among the elderly, and COVID-19 in Japan, finding no change in suicides among children and adolescents. In terms of self-harm, five studies examined emergency department attendances in epidemic and non-epidemic periods, of which four found no difference and one showed a reduction during the epidemic. In studies of thoughts of suicide or self-harm, one large survey showed a substantial increase in period prevalence compared to non-epidemic periods, but smaller studies showed no difference. As a secondary objective, a meta-analysis of thoughts of suicide and self-harm found that the pooled prevalence was 8.0% overall (95% confidence interval (CI) 5.2–12.0%; 14 820 of 99 238 cases in 24 studies) over a time period of between seven days and six months. The quality assessment found 42 studies were of low quality, nine of moderate quality and six of high quality. Conclusions There is little robust evidence on the association of infectious epidemics with suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm. There was an increase in suicides among the elderly in Hong Kong during SARS and no change in suicides among young people in Japan during COVID-19, but it is unclear how far these findings may be generalised. The development of up-to-date self-harm and suicide statistics to monitor the effect of the current pandemic is an urgent priority.

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Nationwide suicides due to alcohol withdrawal symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic: A review of cases from media reports

Cited by 22 publications

References 14 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

COVID-19 and suicide: Just the facts. Key learnings and guidance for action

Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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