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: Received: 11 September 2024 / Approved: 11 September 2024 / Online: 12 September 2024 (11:30:26 CEST)
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Varshney, K.; Panhwar, M. A. Long COVID as a Possible Contributor to Rising Suicide Mortality in Bharat (India): An Analysis of Suicide Trends Since the Emergence of COVID-19. Preprints2024, 2024090916. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0916.v1
Varshney, K.; Panhwar, M. A. Long COVID as a Possible Contributor to Rising Suicide Mortality in Bharat (India): An Analysis of Suicide Trends Since the Emergence of COVID-19. Preprints 2024, 2024090916. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0916.v1
Varshney, K.; Panhwar, M. A. Long COVID as a Possible Contributor to Rising Suicide Mortality in Bharat (India): An Analysis of Suicide Trends Since the Emergence of COVID-19. Preprints2024, 2024090916. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0916.v1
APA Style
Varshney, K., & Panhwar, M. A. (2024). Long COVID as a Possible Contributor to Rising Suicide Mortality in Bharat (India): An Analysis of Suicide Trends Since the Emergence of COVID-19. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0916.v1
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Varshney, K. and Mansoor Ahmed Panhwar. 2024 "Long COVID as a Possible Contributor to Rising Suicide Mortality in Bharat (India): An Analysis of Suicide Trends Since the Emergence of COVID-19" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0916.v1
Abstract
Mortality due to suicide is amongst the largest public health concerns across the world today and in Bharat (India). There have been concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to worsening mental health outcomes across the world, and in Bharat. Furthermore, long COVID has been proposed to be a major consequence of COVID-19, which can also worsen mental health outcomes. Therefore, our objective in this study was to analyse trends in suicide mortality across Bharat, and to compare these trends to changes prior to the COVID-19 pandemic; as well, we aimed to analyse if long COVID had any role in these changes. It was found that, at a national level, the average annual increase of the suicide rate between 2019 and 2022 was 0.7 per 100,000 people (6.41% increase)., There was also an average annual rise in suicide rates across 27 states/union territories (out of the 33 that were analysed). States/UTs with the highest annual increases since the start of the COVID-19, despite a decrease from 2018 to 2019, were Tamil Nadu (increase by 2.7; 15.17% increase), and Telangana (increase by 1.9; 9.22% increase), Multi-linear regression had shown that the annual suicide rate changes were not associated with COVID-19 deaths per 10,000 people (standardized beta coefficient = 0.077; p = 0.605) but were associated with COVID cases per 100 people (standardized beta coefficient = 0.578; p
Keywords
Bharat; COVID-19; long COVID; suicide; mortality
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
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