TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Paradoxes of suicide and psychological crisis-an Uttarakhand phenomenon during COVID-19 lockdown
JO  - Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine
A1  - Devassy, Shinto
A1  - Johnson, Abel K. Samuel
A1  - Bhaisora, Chandra Prakash
A1  - Hatwal, Pooja
SP  - 65
EP  - 67
VL  - 43
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 "Quarantine Blues." 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0971-0973
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-0848.2021.00016.6
ID  - ref1
ER  -