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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns on Self-Poisoning and Suicide in Sri Lanka: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.
| العنوان: | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns on Self-Poisoning and Suicide in Sri Lanka: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. |
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| المؤلفون: | Rajapakse, T, Silva, T, Hettiarachchi, NM, Gunnell, D, Metcalfe, C, Spittal, MJ, Knipe, D |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | The University of Melbourne: Digital Repository |
| الوصف: | Evidence from high-income countries suggests that the impact of COVID-19 on suicide and self-harm has been limited, but evidence from low- and middle-income countries is lacking. Using data from a hospital-based self-poisoning register (January 2019-December 2021) and data from national records (2016-2021) of suicide in Sri Lanka, we aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on both self-poisoning and suicide. We examined changes in admissions for self-poisoning and suicide using interrupted time series (ITS) analysis. For the self-poisoning hospital admission ITS models, we defined the lockdown periods as follows: (i) pre-lockdown: 01/01/2019-19/03/2020; (ii) first lockdown: 20/03/2020-27/06/2020; (iii) post-first lockdown: 28/06/2020-11/05/2021; (iv) second lockdown: 12/05/2021-21/06/2021; and (v) post-second lockdown: 22/06/2021-31/12/2021. For suicide, we defined the intervention according to the pandemic period. We found that during lockdown periods, there was a reduction in hospital admissions for self-poisoning, with evidence that admission following self-poisoning remained lower during the pandemic than would be expected based on pre-pandemic trends. In contrast, there was no evidence that the rate of suicide in the pandemic period differed from that which would be expected. As the long-term socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic are realised, it will be important to track rates of self-harm and suicide in LMICs to inform prevention. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1661-7827 1660-4601 |
| العلاقة: | pii: ijerph20031833; Rajapakse, T., Silva, T., Hettiarachchi, N. M., Gunnell, D., Metcalfe, C., Spittal, M. J. & Knipe, D. (2023). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns on Self-Poisoning and Suicide in Sri Lanka: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 20 (3), pp.1833-. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031833Test.; http://hdl.handle.net/11343/327317Test |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031833Test http://hdl.handle.net/11343/327317Test |
| حقوق: | CC BY ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.C712A58E |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 16617827 16604601 |
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