TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Quality and quantity of serious violent suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic
JO  - Frontiers in psychiatry
A1  - Maleitzke, Tazio
A1  - Zocholl, Dario
A1  - Topp, Tobias
A1  - Dimitrov-Discher, Annika
A1  - Daus, Elly
A1  - Reaux, Gabriel
A1  - Zocholl, Malin
A1  - Conze, Rolf Nicolas
A1  - Kolster, Moritz
A1  - Weber, Philipp
A1  - Fleckenstein, Florian Nima
A1  - Scheutz Henriksen, Louise
A1  - Stöckle, Ulrich
A1  - Fuchs, Thomas
A1  - Gümbel, Denis
A1  - Spranger, Nikolai
A1  - Ringk, Alexander
A1  - Märdian, Sven
SP  - e927696
EP  - e927696
VL  - 13
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: While repeated shutdown and lockdown measures helped contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and self-isolation negatively impacted global mental health in 2020 and 2021. Although suicide rates did reportedly not increase during the first months of the pandemic, long-term data, and data on the quality of serious violent suicide attempts (SVSAs) are not available to date. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: Orthopaedic trauma patient visits to the emergency department (ED), ED trauma team activations, and SVSAs were retrospectively evaluated from January 2019 until May 2021 in four Level-I Trauma Centers in Berlin, Germany. SVSAs were assessed for suicide method, injury pattern and severity, type of treatment, and length of hospital stay. <br><br>RESULTS: Significantly fewer orthopaedic trauma patients presented to EDs during the pandemic (n = 70,271) compared to the control (n = 84,864) period (p = 0.0017). ED trauma team activation numbers remained unchanged. SVSAs (corrected for seasonality) also remained unchanged during control (n = 138) and pandemic (n = 129) periods, and no differences were observed for suicide methods, injury patterns, or length of hospital stay. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Our data emphasize that a previously reported rise in psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic does not coincide with increased SVSA rates or changes in quality of SVSAs.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1664-0640
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.927696
ID  - ref1
ER  -