Trends in suicide in Japan by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic, through December 2020

Shuhei Nomura¹, Takayuki Kawashima², Nahoko Harada³, Daisuke Yoneoka⁴, Yuta Tanoue⁵, Akifumi Eguchi⁶, Stuart Gilmour⁴, Yumi Kawamura⁷, Masahiro Hashizume⁸

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¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
⁴ Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke's International University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Institute for Business and Finance, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶ Department of Sustainable Health Science, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
⁷ Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁸ Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 33839422
PMCID: PMC9068581
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113913

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Trends in suicide in Japan by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic, through December 2020

Shuhei Nomura et al. Psychiatry Res. 2021 Jun.

. 2021 Jun:300:113913.

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113913. Epub 2021 Apr 1.

Authors

Shuhei Nomura¹, Takayuki Kawashima², Nahoko Harada³, Daisuke Yoneoka⁴, Yuta Tanoue⁵, Akifumi Eguchi⁶, Stuart Gilmour⁴, Yumi Kawamura⁷, Masahiro Hashizume⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
⁴ Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke's International University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Institute for Business and Finance, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶ Department of Sustainable Health Science, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
⁷ Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁸ Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 33839422
PMCID: PMC9068581
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113913

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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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Suicide by gender and 10-year age groups during the COVID-19 pandemic vs previous five years in Japan: An analysis of national vital statistics.
Eguchi A, Nomura S, Gilmour S, Harada N, Sakamoto H, Ueda P, Yoneoka D, Tanoue Y, Kawashima T, Hayashi TI, Arima Y, Suzuki M, Hashizume M. Eguchi A, et al. Psychiatry Res. 2021 Nov;305:114173. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114173. Epub 2021 Aug 21. Psychiatry Res. 2021. PMID: 34469804 Free PMC article.

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Trends in suicide in Japan by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic, up to September 2020.
Nomura S, Kawashima T, Yoneoka D, Tanoue Y, Eguchi A, Gilmour S, Kawamura Y, Harada N, Hashizume M. Nomura S, et al. Psychiatry Res. 2021 Jan;295:113622. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113622. Epub 2020 Dec 1. Psychiatry Res. 2021. PMID: 33290942

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