Suicide Deaths in British Columbia during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Barbic^{1

2}, Frank X Scheuermeyer^{1

2}, Skye P Barbic^{2

3}, William G Honer^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, The 8166University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
² Centre for Health Evaluation Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The 8166University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, The 8166University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

PMID: 33998835
PMCID: PMC8495302
DOI: 10.1177/07067437211018398

Suicide Deaths in British Columbia during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Barbic et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;66(9):830-831.

doi: 10.1177/07067437211018398. Epub 2021 May 17.

Authors

David Barbic^{1

2}, Frank X Scheuermeyer^{1

2}, Skye P Barbic^{2

3}, William G Honer^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, The 8166University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
² Centre for Health Evaluation Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, The 8166University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, The 8166University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

PMID: 33998835
PMCID: PMC8495302
DOI: 10.1177/07067437211018398

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; mental health; suicide.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Autoregressive integrated moving average model of expected suicide deaths versus observed suicide deaths for British Columbia for the study period.

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