Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study.
Adolescent
Age
Attempted suicide
COVID-19
Gender
Poison Control Center
Surveillance
Journal
European journal of epidemiology
ISSN: 1573-7284
Titre abrégé: Eur J Epidemiol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8508062
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Historique:
received:
05
08
2021
accepted:
26
07
2022
pubmed:
31
8
2022
medline:
6
10
2022
entrez:
30
8
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Concerns have been raised about early vs. later impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal behavior. However, data remain sparse to date. We investigated all calls for intentional drug or other toxic ingestions to the eight Poison Control Centers in France between 1st January 2018 and 31st May 2022. Data were extracted from the French National Database of Poisonings. Calls during the study period were analyzed using time trends and time series analyses with SARIMA models (based on the first two years). Breakpoints were determined using Chow test. These analyses were performed together with examination of age groups (≤ 11, 12-24, 25-64, ≥ 65 years) and gender effects when possible. Over the studied period, 66,589 calls for suicide attempts were received. Overall, there was a downward trend from 2018, which slowed down in October 2019 and was followed by an increase from November 2020. Number of calls observed during the COVID period were above what was expected. However, important differences were found according to age and gender. The increase in calls from mid-2020 was particularly observed in young females, while middle-aged adults showed a persisting decrease. An increase in older-aged people was observed from mid-2019 and persisted during the pandemic. The pandemic may therefore have exacerbated a pre-existing fragile situation in adolescents and old-aged people. This study emphasizes the rapidly evolving situation regarding suicidal behaviour during the pandemic, the possibility of age and gender differences in impact, and the value of having access to real-time information to monitor suicidal acts.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36040638
doi: 10.1007/s10654-022-00907-z
pii: 10.1007/s10654-022-00907-z
pmc: PMC9425826
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
901-913Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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