Center for Suicide Research, Troy, MI, USA.
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2021 Oct;51(5):833-835. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12729. Epub 2021 Feb 9.
Social distancing (e.g., school and business closings) has been emphasized in current sociopolitical efforts in controlling COVID-19. Such policies are assumed to increase suicide risk through lowering social integration. While two studies have linked the presence of a pandemic to suicide rates, no study has assessed the degree of social distancing on suicide rates during a pandemic. The present study fills this gap with data on the extent of social distancing during the Spanish flu epidemic in 43 large cities. The results find that increasing social distancing increases suicide rates independent of the influenza mortality rate.
社会隔离（例如学校和企业关闭）是当前控制 COVID-19 疫情的社会政治努力的重点。这些政策被认为通过降低社会融合度来增加自杀风险。虽然有两项研究将大流行的出现与自杀率联系起来，但没有研究评估大流行期间社会隔离程度对自杀率的影响。本研究利用西班牙流感疫情期间 43 个大城市社会隔离程度的数据填补了这一空白。研究结果发现，社会隔离程度的增加会增加自杀率，而与流感死亡率无关。
