The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide mortality in Spain: Differences by sex and age.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Variations in suicide following the initial COVID-19 pandemic outbreak were heterogeneous across space, over time, and across population subgroup. Whether suicide has increased during the pandemic in Spain, a major initial COVID-19 hotspot, remains unclear, and no study has examined differences by sociodemographic group.

Methods

We used 2016-2020 data on monthly suicide deaths from Spain's National Institute of Statistics. We implemented Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) models to control seasonality, non-stationarity, and autocorrelation. Using January 2016-March 2020 data, we predicted monthly suicide counts (95 % prediction intervals) between April and December 2020, and then compared observed and predicted monthly suicide counts. All c

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Ales G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9974212 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature