Relationship Between Severity and Length of Exposure to COVID-19 Parameters and Resulting Government Responses and the Suicide Crisis Syndrome (SCS).

Autor: Cohen LJ; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA., Liang Y; Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, GA, USA., Peterkin D; Teachers College, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, NY, USA., McGibbon K; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA., Rappa F; Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, NY, USA., Rogers ML; Department of Psychology, Texas State University, TX, USA., You S; Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea., Chistopolskaya K; Eramishantsev Moscow, Department of Psychiatry, City Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russia., Enikolopov S; Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russia., Barzilay S; Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel., Menon V; Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India., Husain MI; Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, ON, Canada., Dudeck M; Department of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany., Streb J; Department of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany., Çinka E; Department of Health Management, University of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey., Yilmaz FK; Department of Health Management, University of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey., Kuśmirek O; SENS Mental Health LaboratorySzczecin, Poland., Valvassori SS; Program of Health Sciences, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, Laboratório de Psiquiatria Translacional, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Criciuma, Brazil., Blum Y; Department of Psychology, The College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel., Galynker I; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness [Disaster Med Public Health Prep] 2024 Apr 15; Vol. 18, pp. e68. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 15.
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2023.235
Abstrakt: Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a globally devastating psychosocial impact. A detailed understanding of the mental health implications of this worldwide crisis is critical for successful mitigation of and preparation for future pandemics. Using a large international sample, we investigated in the present study the relationship between multiple COVID-19 parameters (both disease characteristics and government responses) and the incidence of the suicide crisis syndrome (SCS), an acute negative affect state associated with near-term suicidal behavior.
Methods: Data were collected from 5528 adults across 10 different countries in an anonymous web-based survey between June 2020 and January 2021.
Results: Individuals scoring above the SCS cut-off lived in countries with higher peak daily cases and deaths during the first wave of the pandemic. Additionally, the longer participants had been exposed to markers of pandemic severity (eg, lockdowns), the more likely they were to screen positive for the SCS. Findings reflected both country-to-country comparisons and individual variation within the pooled sample.
Conclusion: Both the pandemic itself and the government interventions utilized to contain the spread appear to be associated with suicide risk. Public policy should include efforts to mitigate the mental health impact of current and future global disasters.
Databáze: MEDLINE