Temporal and spatial trends in suicide-related visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, 2018-2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 disproportionately impacted mental health in disadvantaged populations and areas. However, disparities in long-term changes in suicide-related visits across the US are unclear. This retrospective study aims to characterize temporal and spatial changes in suicide-related visits in healthcare settings from 2018 to 2021 in the U.S.

Methods

We use electronic health records for 21,860,370 patients from Healthjump through the COVID-19 Research Database Consortium. Healthjump harmonizes EHR data from over 55 national databases across the US. Suicide ideation and suicide attempts between January 1, 2018 and December 12, 2021 were identified by the diagnosis codes in 6 periods in 2021 compared with the same periods in 2018-2020.

Results

There was 30,019 sui

SUBMITTER: Xiao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9773784 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature