Suicide trends varied by age-subgroups during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in Taiwan

Autor: Ying-Yeh Chen, Chi-Ting Yang, Edward Pinkney, Paul Siu Fai Yip
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, Vol 121, Iss 6, Pp 1174-1177 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0929-6646
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2021.09.021
Popis: Background/purpose: The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to unprecedented impact on mental health globally. Recent empirical data however, indicated that suicide rates in many countries remained unchanged or even decreased. Existing studies assessed the overall rates and did not stratify by age-subgroups. Methods: We used an interrupted time-series analysis to model the age-stratified (
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