Exploring the relationship between suicide vulnerability, impulsivity and executive functioning during COVID-19: A longitudinal analysis

ABSTRACT: Public health emergencies increase the presence and severity of multiple suicide risk factors and thus may increase suicide vulnerability. Understanding how suicide risk factors interact throughout the course of a global pandemic can inform how to help the most vulnerable groups in society. The aims of the research were to explore the associations between, and changes in, suicide vulnerability, COVID-related stress, worry, rumination, executive functioning and impulsivity across the first 6 weeks of UK lockdown (1st April – May 17, 2020). 418 adults in the UK completed an online survey at three time points during the first lockdown (Time 1 (April 1–5th), Time 2 (April 15–19th April), Time 3 (May 13–17th). Impulsivity and executive functioning remained stable across the first six weeks of U

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9694475 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature