COVID-19 suicides in Pakistan, dying off not COVID-19 fear but poverty? - The forthcoming economic challenges for a developing country

doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.028

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. 2020 Jul:87:163-166.

doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.028. Epub 2020 May 11.

COVID-19 suicides in Pakistan, dying off not COVID-19 fear but poverty? - The forthcoming economic challenges for a developing country

Mohammed A Mamun¹, Irfan Ullah²

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¹ Department of Public Health & Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Undergraduate Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Electronic address: mamunphi46@gmail.com.
² Undergraduate Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kabir Medical College, Gandhara University, Peshawar, Pakistan. Electronic address: irfanullahecp2@gmail.com.

PMID: 32407859
PMCID: PMC7212955
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.028

Case Reports

COVID-19 suicides in Pakistan, dying off not COVID-19 fear but poverty? - The forthcoming economic challenges for a developing country

Mohammed A Mamun et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul:87:163-166.

doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.028. Epub 2020 May 11.

Authors

Mohammed A Mamun¹, Irfan Ullah²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health & Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Undergraduate Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Electronic address: mamunphi46@gmail.com.
² Undergraduate Research Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kabir Medical College, Gandhara University, Peshawar, Pakistan. Electronic address: irfanullahecp2@gmail.com.

PMID: 32407859
PMCID: PMC7212955
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.028

Abstract

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Suicide increment during and afterwards a pandemic is highly common.
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This study reports COVID-19 suicide cases in Pakistan for the first time.
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Most of the suicides occur due to lockdown-related economic recession.
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Fear of infection is the second suicide contributing factor.
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Lockdown-related unemployment aggravates the life-threatening situation.

Keywords: COVID-19 & mental health; COVID-19 suicide; Coronavirus suicide; Economic recession; Poverty and suicide; Suicides in Pakistan.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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[1] Ahorsu, D. K., Lin, C.-Y., Imani, V., Saffari, M., Griffiths, M. D., & Pakpour, A. H., 2020. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and initial validation. Int. J. Mental Health Addict., Epub ahead of print.doi:10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8. - PMC - PubMed

[2] Ahorsu, D. K., Lin, C.-Y., Imani, V., Saffari, M., Griffiths, M. D., & Pakpour, A. H., 2020. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and initial validation. Int. J. Mental Health Addict., Epub ahead of print.doi:10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8. - PMC - PubMed

[3] Armstrong G., Vijayakumar L., Pirkis J., Jayaseelan M., Cherian A., Soerensen J.B., Niederkrotenthaler T. Mass media representation of suicide in a high suicide state in India: an epidemiological comparison with suicide deaths in the population. BMJ Open. 2019;9(7) - PMC - PubMed

[4] Armstrong G., Vijayakumar L., Pirkis J., Jayaseelan M., Cherian A., Soerensen J.B., Niederkrotenthaler T. Mass media representation of suicide in a high suicide state in India: an epidemiological comparison with suicide deaths in the population. BMJ Open. 2019;9(7) - PMC - PubMed

[5] Augustine, B.D., 2020. COVID-19 to slowdown Pakistan’s economic growth: Asian Development Bank. Retrieved 30 April 2020, from https://gulfnews.com/business/covid-19-to-slowdown-pakistans-economic-gr....

[6] Augustine, B.D., 2020. COVID-19 to slowdown Pakistan’s economic growth: Asian Development Bank. Retrieved 30 April 2020, from https://gulfnews.com/business/covid-19-to-slowdown-pakistans-economic-gr....

[7] Bhuiyan A.K.M.I., Sakib N., Pakpour A.H., Griffiths M.D., Mamun M.A. COVID-19-related suicides in Bangladesh due to lockdown and economic factors: Case study evidence. Int. J. Ment. Health Ad. 2020 In press. - PMC - PubMed

[8] Bhuiyan A.K.M.I., Sakib N., Pakpour A.H., Griffiths M.D., Mamun M.A. COVID-19-related suicides in Bangladesh due to lockdown and economic factors: Case study evidence. Int. J. Ment. Health Ad. 2020 In press. - PMC - PubMed

[9] Dsouza, D.D., Quadros, S., Hyderabadwala, Z. J., Mamun, M., 2020, May 3. Aggregated COVID-19 suicide incidences in India: Fear of COVID-19 infection is the prominent causative factor. PsyArXiv, Epub ahead of print. 10.31234/osf.io/7xa4b. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Dsouza, D.D., Quadros, S., Hyderabadwala, Z. J., Mamun, M., 2020, May 3. Aggregated COVID-19 suicide incidences in India: Fear of COVID-19 infection is the prominent causative factor. PsyArXiv, Epub ahead of print. 10.31234/osf.io/7xa4b. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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