@article{ref1,
title="Paradoxes of suicide and psychological crisis-an Uttarakhand phenomenon during COVID-19 lockdown",
journal="Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine",
year="2021",
author="Devassy, Shinto and Johnson, Abel K. Samuel and Bhaisora, Chandra Prakash and Hatwal, Pooja",
volume="43",
number="1",
pages="65-67",
abstract="Indian government had mandated nationwide lockdown with stringent guidelines from March 24th to May 4th 2020. Lockdown created huge impact on everything. It has exacerbated pre-existing mental illness in many, thereby leading to &quot;Quarantine Blues.&quot; This retrospective study had been conducted in Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at a tertiary health care centre, Haldwani th th in Nainital district; Uttarakhand to focus on how the lockdown effect correlated to suicide from March 24th to May 4th 2020 with the same time period of preceding years (2016-2019). There was a decline in the trend of suicides during lockdown (n=1) when compared with concurrent time interval over the previous years. Domestic violence spikes are supposed to bloom the number of suicides, but Uttarakhand phenomenon is a paradox which needs to be further evaluated.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0971-0973",
doi="10.5958/0974-0848.2021.00016.6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-0848.2021.00016.6"
}