TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - How bad is it? Suicidality in the middle of the CoViD-19 pandemic JO - Suicide and life-threatening behavior A1 - Fitzpatrick, Kevin M. A1 - Harris, Casey A1 - Drawve, Grant SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - OBJECTIVE: The current paper examines the intersection between social vulnerability, individual risk, and social/psychological resources with adult suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Data come from a national sample (n =10, 368) of U.S. adults. Using an online platform, information was gathered the third week of March 2020, and post-stratification weighted to proportionally represent the U.S. population in terms of age, gender, race/ethnicity, income, and geography. RESULTS: Nearly 15 percent of sampled respondents were categorized as high risk, scoring 7+ on the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R). This level of risk varied across social vulnerability groupings: Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, families with children, unmarried, and younger respondents reported higher SBQ-R scores than their counterparts (p < 0.000). Regression results confirm these bivariate differences, and also reveal that risk factors (food insecurity, physical symptoms, and CES-D symptomatology) are positive and significantly related to suicidality (p < 0.000). Additionally, resource measures are significant and negatively related to suicidality (p < 0.000). CONCLUSIONS: These results provide some insight on the impact COVID-19 is having on the general U.S. POPULATION: Practitioners should be prepared for what will likely be a significant mental health fall-out in the months and years ahead.
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LA - en SN - 0363-0234 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12655 ID - ref1 ER -