Suicide-related calls to a national crisis chat hotline service during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown

Suicide-related calls to a national crisis chat hotline service during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown

A COVID-19 pandemic-related rise in suicide rates has been predicted due to social isolation, fear, uncertainty, economic turndown and grief. Detecting an increase in suicide rates is difficult in the absence of real-time data. Alternative data sources for such trends in psychopathology and suicidal...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of psychiatric research 2021-07, Vol.139, p.193-196
Hauptverfasser: Zalsman, Gil, Levy, Yael, Sommerfeld, Eliane, Segal, Avi, Assa, Dana, Ben-Dayan, Loona, Valevski, Avi, Mann, J. John
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Sprache:eng
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Adult
Aged
Communicable Disease Control
COVID-19
Crisis hotline
Depression
Female
Hotlines
Humans
Male
Pandemics
Prevention
SARS-CoV-2
Suicide
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Zusammenfassung:A COVID-19 pandemic-related rise in suicide rates has been predicted due to social isolation, fear, uncertainty, economic turndown and grief. Detecting an increase in suicide rates is difficult in the absence of real-time data. Alternative data sources for such trends in psychopathology and suicidal behavior must be sought. Data from a national chat-based crisis hotline for the first half of 2019 (pre-COVID-19), were compared to data from the first half of 2020 (during COVID-19). Chat sessions were classified by content and demographics and the data compared between the two time periods. Total chats (n = 6756) were 48% higher during COVID-19 (p 
ISSN:0022-3956
1879-1379
DOI:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.05.060