Child suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England

Background: There is concern about the impact of COVID-19, and the control measures to prevent the spread, on children's mental health. The aim of this work was to identify if there had been a rise of childhood suicide during the COVID pandemic. Method: Using data from England's National C...

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Autores principales:	David Odd, Tom Williams, Louis Appleby, David Gunnell, Karen Luyt
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Suicide children COVID-19 Lockdown Mental healing RZ400-408
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:97cc0a94c41247a084ddcb3a60b1862a2021-11-26T04:42:03ZChild suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England2666-915310.1016/j.jadr.2021.100273https://doaj.org/article/97cc0a94c41247a084ddcb3a60b1862a2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666915321001955https://doaj.org/toc/2666-9153Background: There is concern about the impact of COVID-19, and the control measures to prevent the spread, on children's mental health. The aim of this work was to identify if there had been a rise of childhood suicide during the COVID pandemic. Method: Using data from England's National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) the characteristics and rates of children dying of suicide between April and December 2020 were compared with those in 2019. In a subset (1st January to 17th May 2020) further characteristics and possible contributing factors were obtained. Results: A total of 193 likely childhood deaths by suicide were reported. There was no evidence overall suicide deaths were higher in 2020 than 2019 (RR 1.09 (0.80–1.48), p = 0.584) but weak evidence that the rate in the first lockdown period (April to May 2020) was higher than the corresponding period in 2019 (RR 1.56 (0.86–2.81), p = 0.144). Characteristics of individuals were similar between periods. Social restrictions (e.g. to education), disruption to care and support services, tensions at home and isolation appeared to be contributing factors. Limitations: As child suicides are fortunately rare, the analysis is based on small numbers of deaths with limited statistical power to detect anything but major increases in incidence. Conclusion: We found no consistent evidence that child suicide deaths increased during the COVID-19 pandemic although there was a possibility that they may have increased during the first UK lockdown. A similar peak was not seen during the following months, or the second lockdown.David OddTom WilliamsLouis ApplebyDavid GunnellKaren LuytElsevierarticleSuicidechildrenCOVID-19LockdownMental healingRZ400-408ENJournal of Affective Disorders Reports, Vol 6, Iss , Pp 100273- (2021)
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description	Background: There is concern about the impact of COVID-19, and the control measures to prevent the spread, on children's mental health. The aim of this work was to identify if there had been a rise of childhood suicide during the COVID pandemic. Method: Using data from England's National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) the characteristics and rates of children dying of suicide between April and December 2020 were compared with those in 2019. In a subset (1st January to 17th May 2020) further characteristics and possible contributing factors were obtained. Results: A total of 193 likely childhood deaths by suicide were reported. There was no evidence overall suicide deaths were higher in 2020 than 2019 (RR 1.09 (0.80–1.48), p = 0.584) but weak evidence that the rate in the first lockdown period (April to May 2020) was higher than the corresponding period in 2019 (RR 1.56 (0.86–2.81), p = 0.144). Characteristics of individuals were similar between periods. Social restrictions (e.g. to education), disruption to care and support services, tensions at home and isolation appeared to be contributing factors. Limitations: As child suicides are fortunately rare, the analysis is based on small numbers of deaths with limited statistical power to detect anything but major increases in incidence. Conclusion: We found no consistent evidence that child suicide deaths increased during the COVID-19 pandemic although there was a possibility that they may have increased during the first UK lockdown. A similar peak was not seen during the following months, or the second lockdown.
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title	Child suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England
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Child suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England

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