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An international study that shows a 26-per-cent decline in B.C.’s suicide rate during the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic must be viewed carefully, say experts who fear the pandemic’s worst impacts on mental health have yet to be seen.
It is not uncommon for suicide rates to decrease in the face of challenging situations, only to be followed by an uptick later, said Emily Jenkins, an assistant professor in the University of B.C.’s School of Nursing.
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Suicides fallen by 4% during the Covid-19 pandemic
In Austria, suicides have fallen by 4% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, thereby consolidating the pre-2019 trend. An international study now shows that this pattern is similar to the global suicide trends during the initial phase of the coronavirus pandemic up until the end of October. “Figures are now also available from Statistik Austria for the whole of 2020 and these confirm the results of the study,” says Thomas Niederkrotenthaler from the Center for Public Health (Department of Social and Preventive Medicine), who took part in the study on behalf of MedUni Vienna along with Paul Plener, Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A total of around 70 scientists in 21 countries were involved in the study. On average, the trends were found to be similar in all countries investigated.