Increased ambulance attendances related to suicide and self-injury in response to the pandemic in Australia

James John; Ei Phyu Synn; Teresa Winata; Valsamma Eapen; Ping I. Lin

doi:10.1177/00048674221121090

Increased ambulance attendances related to suicide and self-injury in response to the pandemic in Australia

James John
, Ei Phyu Synn
, Teresa Winata
, Valsamma Eapen
, Ping I. Lin

School of Medicine

University of New South Wales
New South Wales Health

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Abstract

Initial evidence in 2020 suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic did not result in an increased suicide rate in Australia (Clapperton et al., 2021). However, many surveillance systems for suicide using coroner's records or hospitalisation data might not well represent actual suicide rates due to prolonged time in determining sui-cide intent (De Leo et al., 2010). In addition, these data also overlooked the non-hospitalised cases, which might underestimate the disease burden.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	140-142
Number of pages	3
Journal	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Volume	57
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00048674221121090
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

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Increased ambulance attendances related to suicide and self-injury in response to the pandemic in Australia

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