Correction to Port et al. (2022)

Reports an error in "Perceived impact of COVID-19 among callers to the national suicide prevention lifeline" by Margaret S. Port, Alison M. Lake, Amanda M. Hoyte-Badu, Claudia L. Rodriguez, Saba J. Chowdhury, Alena Goldstein, Sean Murphy, Michelle Cornette and Madelyn S. Gould ( Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Advanced Online Publication, Sep 08, 2022, np). The article has now been published as an open access article with “© The Author(s)” under a CC BY-NCND 4.0 license. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2023-01166-001). Background: Research indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic caused increases in psychological distress and suicidal ideation. Aims: To describe the ways suicidal callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) perceived COVID-19 to have impacted them and assess whether these callers perceived COVID-19-related stress as contributing to their suicidal thoughts. Method: Telephone interviews were conducted with 412 suicidal callers to 12 Lifeline centers. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine the associations between demographic factors and individual COVID-19 stressors and to determine whether callers who endorsed COVID-19-related stress as contributing to their suicidal thoughts differed from those who did not regarding demographics, current suicide risk, history of suicidality, Lifeline use, or individual COVID-19 stressors. Results: Over half of callers reported that COVID-19-related stress contributed to their suicidal ideation (CRSSI). Callers who endorsed CRSSI had higher odds than those who did not of mentioning financial difficulties when asked how COVID-19 impacted them. The two groups of callers did not differ on the other factors examined. Limitations: Interviewed callers may not be representative of all Lifeline callers. Conclusion: Despite the subjective burden of COVID-19-related stress on suicidal Lifeline callers, this was not associated with new suicidality or heightened suicide risk. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)