Evidence
Clin Psychol Sci. 2021 May;9(3):482-488. doi: 10.1177/2167702621993857.
ABSTRACT
There is concern that the COVID-19 pandemic may cause increased risk of suicide. In the current study, we tested whether suicidal thinking has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether such thinking was predicted by increased feelings of social isolation. In a sample of 55 individuals recently hospitalized for suicidal thinking or behaviors and participating in a 6-month intensive longitudinal smartphone monitoring study, we examined suicidal thinking and isolation before and after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency in the United States. We found that suicidal thinking increased significantly among adults (odds ratio [OR] = 4.01, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [3.28, 4.90], p < .001) but not adolescents (OR = 0.84, 95% CI = [0.69, 1.01], p = .07) during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased feelings of isolation predicted suicidal thinking during the pandemic phase. Given the importance of social distancing policies, these findings support the need for digital outreach and treatment.
PMID:38602997 | PMC:PMC7967020 | DOI:10.1177/2167702621993857
Add to Google Keep
Estimated reading time: 3 minute(s)
Latest: Psychiatryai.com #RAISR4D
Cool Evidence: Engaging Young People and Students in Real-World Evidence ☀️
Real-Time Evidence Search [Psychiatry]
AI Research [Andisearch.com]
Increase in Suicidal Thinking During COVID-19
🌐 90 Days
VR Related Evidence Matrix
- Brooding, Reflection, and Anger Rumination Relate to Suicidal Ideation through the Role of Thought Control
- Brooding, Reflection, and Anger Rumination Relate to Suicidal Ideation through the Role of Thought Control
- Do people know how suicidal they will be? Understanding suicidal prospection
- Nightmare frequency is a risk factor for suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic
- A Lonelier World after COVID-19: Longitudinal Population-Based Study of Well-Being, Emotional and Social Loneliness, and Suicidal Behaviour in Slovenia
- Anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among early adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prevalence of and risk factors for suicidal ideation in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
- Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical residents in Tehran during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multicentric cross-sectional survey
- The role of interpersonal stressors and connectedness in acute suicide risk and the suicide crisis syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceptions of social relationships, negative affect, and paranoid ideation
- Social support and suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic among Brazilian healthcare workers: a longitudinal assessment of an online repeated cross-sectional survey
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the symptomatology and routine of medicated patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Suicide mortality in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of sociodemographic factors
- Mental Health Treatment Use, Perceived Treatment Need, and Reasons for Non-Use Among U.S. Adults with Serious Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- National trends and correlates of treatment resistance in major depressive episode and associated suicidal ideation and behaviors among adults in the United States
- Borderline Personality Traits Do Not Moderate the Relationship Between Depression, Beliefs, and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
- Borderline Personality Traits Do Not Moderate the Relationship Between Depression, Beliefs, and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
- "It's just us sitting there for 23 hours like we done something wrong": Isolation, incarceration, and the COVID-19 pandemic
- The Relationship Between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Pediatric Trauma
- Daily Levels and Dynamic Metrics of Affective-Cognitive Constructs Associate With Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in Adults After Psychiatric Hospitalization
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University Students' Mental Health: A Literature Review
- From Social Stress and Isolation to Autonomic Nervous System Dysregulation in Suicidal Behavior
- From Social Stress and Isolation to Autonomic Nervous System Dysregulation in Suicidal Behavior
- Association between love breakup and suicidal ideation in Peruvian medical students: a cross-sectional study during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Changes in severity of pediatric suicide attempts before and after coronavirus disease 2019
- Unmasking the mental health scars of COVID-19: A longitudinal investigation of children and adolescents in post-lockdown China
- Self-harm presentations to hospital trauma centre emergency departments during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
- A qualitative internet-based study of parental experiences of adolescents suffering from affective disorders with non-suicidal self-injury during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Temporal Fluctuations of Suicide Mortality in Japan from 2009 to 2023 Using Government Databases
- Prevalence and associated risk factors for suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempt among male construction workers in Ireland
- Risk and protective factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Black female and male youth with depression symptoms - United States, 2004-2019
- Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on self-poisoning behaviour with mild analgesics in Danish youth
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Unassisted Suicide and Assisted Suicide Rates in French-Speaking Switzerland: Differences by Gender
- Association Between Cortical Thickness or Surface Area and Divergent Thinking in Patients with Bipolar Disorder
- Four modeling approaches to study restrictions on everyday life and social activities due to chronic diseases with consequences of suicidal behavior
- Suicide rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Perception of interpersonal distance and social distancing before and during COVID-19 pandemic
- Examining optimism and flourishing as protective factors of suicidality across the adult lifespan: A cross-sectional investigation in three Spanish age groups
- Investigation of divergent thinking among surgeons and surgeon trainees in Canada (IDEAS): a mixed-methods study
- Insufficient Sleep is Associated With Increasing Trends in Adolescent Suicidal Behaviors
- Suicide attempts in French Polynesia during the era of COVID-19: a prospective analysis over three years
- Health service and psychotropic medication use for mental health conditions among healthcare workers active during the Spain Covid-19 Pandemic - A prospective cohort study using web-based surveys
- Anxiety in adolescents and subsequent risk of suicidal behavior: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Supportive Relationships Mitigate the Effect of Cumulative Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences on Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Suicide Considerations-The Arizona Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Suicidal ideation, perception of personal safety, and career regret among emergency medicine residents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Minority stressors and suicidal ideation in sexual minority individuals across adulthood
- Healthcare avoidance during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and all-cause mortality: a longitudinal community-based study
- Strategic Approaches for the Health Science Educator: Understanding Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, and Continuous Process Improvement and Their Impact
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of restraint and seclusion interventions in Ontario emergency departments: A population-based study
- Risk factors for internalizing symptoms: The influence of empathy, theory of mind, and negative thinking processes
- Factors related to increased alcohol misuse by students compared to non-students during the first Covid-19 lockdown in France: the Confins study
- Non-fatal suicide behaviours across phases in the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study in a Catalan cohort
- Examining the relationship between non-suicidal self-harm and suicidality within the past 12-months and gaming problems in Norwegian full-time students
- Mental Health Symptoms and Service Use in Depressed and Anxious Minors at the Onset of COVID-19 in a County Clinic Serving a Predominantly Hispanic Population
- Disrupted small-world white matter networks in patients with major depression and recent suicide plans or attempts
- Associations between negative COVID-19 experiences and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a study based on a representative Canadian national sample
- Interaction effect of race-ethnicity and dementia on COVID-19 diagnosis among a national US older adult sample
- Comparison of dysfunctional attitudes, cognitive vulnerability to depression, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in healthy participants
- A cross-sectional investigation on remote working, loneliness, workplace isolation, well-being and perceived social support in healthcare workers
- Altered Trajectories: Considering the Long-Term Impact of Educational Disruption during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Neurodevelopment and a Call to Action for Neuropsychology
- What to think or how to think - is symptom reduction in posttraumatic symptomatology associated with change in posttraumatic cognitions or perseverative thinking? A latent change score model approach
- Associations of history of alcohol use disorder with loneliness, social support, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Alexithymia in gaming addiction and engagement
- The Social Connectedness of Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence by Survey Mode and Respondent Dementia
Evidence Blueprint
Increase in Suicidal Thinking During COVID-19
☊ AI-Driven Related Evidence Nodes
(recent articles with at least 5 words in title)
More Evidence
Increase in Suicidal Thinking During COVID-19
🌐 365 Days
VR Related Evidence Matrix
- Brooding, Reflection, and Anger Rumination Relate to Suicidal Ideation through the Role of Thought Control
- Brooding, Reflection, and Anger Rumination Relate to Suicidal Ideation through the Role of Thought Control
- Do people know how suicidal they will be? Understanding suicidal prospection
- A Rapid Systematic Review of the Prevalence of Suicide and Self-Harm Behaviors in Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Urgent Psychiatric Consultations for Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors in Italian Adolescents during Different COVID-19 Pandemic Phases
- Nightmare frequency is a risk factor for suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Twelve-month suicidal ideation, incidence and persistence among college students pre-pandemic and during the pandemic: A longitudinal study
- Evaluation of the rate and pattern of suicide attempts and deaths by self-poisoning among Egyptians before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- A Lonelier World after COVID-19: Longitudinal Population-Based Study of Well-Being, Emotional and Social Loneliness, and Suicidal Behaviour in Slovenia
- Psychosocial stress, adult suicidal ideation, and the mediating effect of poor sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
- Purpose in the pandemic: Fear of COVID-19, hopelessness, meaning in life, and suicidal thoughts among two samples of Black Americans
- Examination of proinflammatory activity as a moderator of the relation between momentary interpersonal stress and suicidal ideation
- Suicidal behaviour and ideation among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Perceived COVID-19 Stress and Suicidal Ideation Among College Students: Meditation Roles of Family Cohesion and Unmet Interpersonal Needs
- Changes in suicide-related tweets before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in France: The importance of social media monitoring in public health prediction
- The impact of social connection on near-term suicidal ideation
- COVID-19 anti-Asian racism, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and suicidal ideation among Asian American Emerging Adults
- West Michigan Suicide Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Depression, Complicated Grief, and Suicide Ideation Following Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Autistic traits associated with dichotomic thinking mediated by intolerance of uncertainty
- Psychological disorders and suicide attempts in youths during the pre-COVID and post-COVID era in a Taiwan pediatric emergency department
- Factors affecting depression in adolescents with increased suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among early adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Suicidal ideation among young adults in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a population-based cross-sectional study
- Changes on depression and suicidal ideation under severe lockdown restrictions during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a longitudinal study in the general population
- The legacy of social anxiety-linked negative expectancy: A pathway from pre-event negative expectancies to post-event negative thinking
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviour among healthcare workers in England during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study
- Prevalence of and risk factors for suicidal ideation in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
- The prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation in Chinese psychiatric patients during the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
- Linking repetitive negative thinking and insomnia symptoms: A longitudinal trait-state model
- Incidence of Suicidal Ideation in a Civil Servants Cohort During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Insights from the ELSA-Brasil Study
- Suicidal and aggressive behavior among populations within institutional quarantine and isolation centers of COVID-19 in eastern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study
- Is a change in economic status associated with anxiety, depression and suicide ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korean adults?
- Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical residents in Tehran during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multicentric cross-sectional survey
- Positive Future Thinking Without Task-relevance Increases Anxiety and Frontal Stress Regulation
- Vertebral Fractures in Pediatric Suicidal Jumpers: A Retrospective Study with Epidemiological and Clinical Analysis before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
- The role of interpersonal stressors and connectedness in acute suicide risk and the suicide crisis syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on accidental and suicidal drug intake rates, what has the pandemic changed?
- Impact of loneliness on suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from a cross-sectional online survey in Japan
- Psychotic experiences, perceived stress, and suicidal ideation among the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from Japan
- Twisted memories: Addiction-related engrams are strengthened by desire thinking
- Centrality depression-anxiety symptoms linked to suicidal ideation among depressed college students--A network approach
- Evaluating co-occurring space-time clusters of depression and suicide-related outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Identifying disparities in suicidal thoughts and behaviors among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Understanding the Broader Impact of Stuttering: Suicidal Ideation
- The relationship between mood disorders, personality disorder and suicidality in adolescence: does general personality disturbance play a significant role in predicting suicidal behavior?
- Dramatic increase of suicidality in children and adolescents after COVID-19 pandemic start: A two-year longitudinal study
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceptions of social relationships, negative affect, and paranoid ideation
- The relationships between stress, stress-coping behaviors, and suicidal risk among Thais who had become unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
- Assessment of risk factors for suicidal behavior: results from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences Employees' Cohort study
- A national examination of suicidal ideation, planning, and attempts among United States adults: Differences by military veteran status, 2008-2019
- Relationship between self-esteem and suicidal ideation before and during COVID-19 in a non-clinical sample: mediating effects of psychological distress and hopelessness
- Social support and suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic among Brazilian healthcare workers: a longitudinal assessment of an online repeated cross-sectional survey
- Perceived Family Support Buffers the Impact of PTSD-Depression Symptoms on Suicidal Ideation in College Students
- Uncontrollability of suicidal ideation adds incremental explanatory power in prediction of later suicidal ideation
- Characteristics of patients treated for suicidal behavior during the pandemic in a psychiatric emergency department in a Spanish province
- Trends and Characteristics of Suicide-Related Behaviors Before and After the COVID-19 Epidemic in Tottori, Japan: A Retrospective Study
- Emergency department visits and hospital admissions for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm among adolescents in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the symptomatology and routine of medicated patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation in the general public during the fifth wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
- The impact of mood-induction on maladaptive thinking in the vulnerability for depression
- Exploring changes in violence across two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Richmond, VA
- Psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic - what do we know about them?
- Testing the interpersonal theory of suicide in adolescents: A multi-wave longitudinal study