@article{ref1,
title="Suicides from 2016 to 2020 in Finland and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic",
journal="British journal of psychiatry",
year="2022",
author="Partonen, Timo and Kiviruusu, Olli and Grainger, Marjut and Suvisaari, Jaana and Eklin, Aki and Virtanen, Antti and Kauppila, Riitta",
volume="220",
number="1",
pages="38-40",
abstract="The COVID-19 pandemic has had negative mental health outcomes in populations, but the suicide numbers in Finland have remained unchanged compared with expected levels based on the pre-pandemic period. We included all deaths from suicide verified by the official cause-of-death investigations, including forensic autopsy with analysis of forensic toxicology samples, between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2020 in Finland. There was a decline in suicide incidence from 2016 to 2020 in men, and a declining tendency in suicide rates for every consecutive month during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The COVID-19 governmental policy responses do not seem to have led to an increase in suicide numbers.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1250",
doi="10.1192/bjp.2021.136",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.136"
}