No evidence of increase in suicide in Greece during the first wave of Covid-19
Vandoros, S.; Theodorikakou, O.; Katsadoros, K.; Zafeiropoulou, D.; Kawachi, I.
Show abstract
Background and ObjectiveMental health outcomes have reportedly worsened in several countries during the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. In the present study we examined whether suicides increased in Greece during the first wave of the pandemic. MethodsWe used daily suicide estimates from a Suicide Observatory in Greece from 2015-2020 and followed three methodologies: A descriptive approach, an interrupted time series analysis, and a differences-in-differences econometric model. ResultsWe did not find any empirical evidence of any increase in suicides during the first wave of Covid-19 and the lockdown in any of the three approaches used. ConclusionsSuicides did not seem to increase during the first wave of covid-19 and lockdown in Greece. However, this does not mean that mental health did not deteriorate, or that we will not observe an increase in suicides during the second wave. Protective factors for Greece during the first wave may include working from home (for those able to tele-work), strong family ties, advertising of a suicide hotline and income support for the unemployed.
Matching journals
The top 7 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
Similar papers in this journal
Similar papers in this journal
- Will the COVID-19 pandemic lead to a tsunami of suicides? A Swedish nationwide analysis of historical and 2020 data 95%
- Psychosocial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: Identification of most vulnerable populations 93%
- Media coverage and speculation about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide: A content analysis of UK news 93%
Similar papers in this journal
- Loneliness among people with severe mental ill health during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a linked UK population cohort study 92%
- Anxiety and Depression among Medical Doctors in Catalonia, Italy, and the UK during the COVID-19 Pandemic 92%
- Characteristics of mental health stability during COVID-19: An online survey with people residing in the Liverpool City Region 92%
Similar papers in this journal
- The prevalence, incidence and risk factors of mental health problems and mental health services use before and 9 months after the COVID-19 outbreak among the general Dutch population. A 3-wave prospective study 93%
- Functional Disability, Health Care Access, and Mental Health in Ukrainians Displaced by the 2022 Russian Invasion 91%
- An overview of current mental health in the general population of Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the COLLATE project 91%
Similar papers in this journal
- Trends in suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in a major German city 96%
- Mental health problems in the general population during and after the first lockdown phase due to the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic: Rapid review of multi-wave studies 91%
- Extending the Ecological Model of Distress to Social Functioning among Refugees and Asylum-seekers 91%
"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.