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. 2021 Nov;75(11):351-352.
doi: 10.1111/pcn.13293. Epub 2021 Sep 6.

Increase in suicide rates among undergraduate students in Japanese national universities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Yasuko Fuse-Nagase  1 , Toshiyuki Marutani  2 , Hirokazu Tachikawa  3 , Taku Iwami  4 , Yuji Yamamoto  5 , Toshiki Moriyama  6 , Katsuhiro Yasumi  7
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Increase in suicide rates among undergraduate students in Japanese national universities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Yasuko Fuse-Nagase et al. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2021 Nov.
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The annual tendency of suicide rates (per 100 000 students) among undergraduate students from the academic years 2012–2013 to 2020–2021 was extracted from our past surveys. The suicide rates in total and for men in the academic year 2020–2021 was the highest in the last six academic years, and that for women was the highest in the last 8 years.
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