Citation

Verma SK, Verma A, Malia P, Chauhan M. Asian J. Psychiatry 2022; 79: e103349.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ajp.2022.103349

PMID

36495829

Abstract

The psyche about the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has got fixed to a level of conviction that committing suicide is directly linked to coronavirus infection. The statistics of suicidal hangings for the pre-Covid-19 and the Covid-19 periods were compared in the Indian capital. The data analysis of the autopsy records showed the absence of temporal association between the incidence rates of suicides between these two periods. The study concludes that there was no net increase in suicide rates in the study population of this lower-middle-income group country during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Language: en

Keywords

Psychiatry; Suicide; Autopsy; Hanging; Covid-19 pandemic; Medico-legal issues