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Comment
. 2023 Jul;10(7):484-485.
doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00159-1.

COVID-19, young people, and suicidal behaviour

Nobuyuki Horita  1 , Sho Moriguchi  2
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COVID-19, young people, and suicidal behaviour

Nobuyuki Horita et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2023 Jul.
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Deaths by suicide in Japan before and during the COVID-19 pandemic The light blue bars represent the pre-pandemic era from July, 2012 to June, 2020, whereas the dark blue bars represent the pandemic era from July, 2020 to June, 2022. P values, based on the Mann-Whitney test and Bonferroni correction, were used to compare the pre-pandemic and pandemic eras.
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