What has been the effect of covid-19 on suicide rates?
What has been the effect of covid-19 on suicide rates?
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DOI：
10.1136/bmj.n834
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发表时间：
2021-03-29
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Appleby, Louis
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Appleby, Louis
媒体上没有一周不报道新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）对自杀的影响。在社交媒体上，似乎每天都有这样的报道。大流行一年后，有什么证据？简短的回答是，效果甚微。但它比这更复杂，因为它总是与自杀统计。首先，重要的是要强调，用于回答这个问题的图表和数字不是干燥的数据。他们代表了失去的真实的生命，真实的家庭。没有自杀率，无论高或低，上升或下降，是可以接受的。即使在2019冠状病毒病之前，英国每年也有超过6000人死于自杀，全球估计有80万人。1
Not a week passes without a story in the press about the impact of covid-19 on suicide. Claims on social media seem to appear daily. A year into the pandemic, what is the evidence? The short answer is that there has been little effect. But it’s more complex than that, as it always is with suicide statistics.Firstly, it’s important to stress that the graphs and figures that are used to answer this question are not dry data. They represent real lives lost, real families devastated. No suicide rate, whether high or low, rising or falling, is acceptable. Even before covid-19, there were over 6000 deaths by suicide per year in the UK, an estimated 800 000 worldwide. 1