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Aggregated COVID-19 suicide incidences in India: Fear of COVID-19 infection is the prominent causative factor

Titulo Aggregated COVID-19 suicide incidences in India: Fear of COVID-19 infection is the prominent causative factor
Autoría Dsouza DD, Quadros S, Hyderabadwala ZJ, Mamun MA.
Fuente Psychiatry Res 2020 Psychiatry Res. 2020 Aug;290:113145. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113145. Epub 2020 May 28. 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113145
Resumen Many Indian COVID-19 suicide cases are turning the press-media attention and flooding in the social media platforms although, no particular studies assessed the COVID-19 suicide causative factors to a large extent. Therefore, the present study presents 69 COVID-19 suicide cases (aged 19 to 65 years; 63 cases were males). The suicide causalities are included as follows - fear of COVID-19 infection (n=21), followed by financial crisis (n=19), loneliness, social boycott and pressure to be quarantine, COVID-19 positive, COVID-19 work-related stress, unable to come back home due to lockdown, unavailability of alcohol etc. Considering the extreme psychological impacts related to COVID-19, there emerges a need for countrywide extensive tele-mental health care services.
URL www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32544650