Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan; Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Psychiatry Res. 2021 Jan;295:113622. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113622. Epub 2020 Dec 1.
Suicide is an extreme consequence of the psychological burden associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) counter-measures. A quasi-Poisson regression was applied to monthly suicide mortality data obtained from the National Police Agency to estimate the gender-specific excess/exiguous suicide deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan up to September 2020. We found excess suicide deaths among women in July, August and September, but not among men. Our results indicate the importance of COVID-19 related suicide prevention, especially for women. Timely access to mental health care and financial and social support is urgently needed, as is optimal treatment for mental illness.
自杀是与 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）对策相关的心理负担的极端后果。我们应用了拟泊松回归分析，以分析截至 2020 年 9 月从国家警察厅获得的每月自杀死亡率数据，以评估日本 COVID-19 大流行期间男女特定的超额/不足自杀死亡人数。我们发现女性在 7 月、8 月和 9 月的自杀死亡人数过多，但男性没有。我们的结果表明，需要关注 COVID-19 相关的自杀预防，特别是针对女性。需要及时获得心理健康护理以及财政和社会支持，还需要对精神疾病进行最佳治疗。
