135723 20241125101154.0 doi 10.4088/JCP.22m14601 sideral 133520 ART-2023-133520 eng Sanz-Gómez, Sergio Pandemics and suicide rates in Spain: from the Spanish flu to COVID-19 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Objective: The aim of this study was to examine suicide rates in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1920. Methods: Data on deaths by cause for the periods 1910–1925 and 2016–2020 were obtained from the National Statistics Institute of Spain. Results: During the Spanish influenza pandemic, a peak of deaths in 1918 due to influenza, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, and other respiratory diseases coincided with an increase in suicides (from 5.9 in 1917 to 6.6 per 100,000 population in 1918). The pattern was repeated in the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020, with an increase in suicides from 7.8 in 2019 to 8.3 per 100,000 population in 2020. In both cases, the male:female suicide ratio was reduced in similar proportion, with a higher net increase in the number of suicides among males but a higher percentage increase among females. Conclusions: Albeit limited, there is evidence that the pandemics may have affected suicide rates. However, the effect was most likely due to precipitation of different diathesis-stressor factors in each setting, given the different historical contexts. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 4.5 2023 PSYCHIATRY 45 / 279 = 0.161 2023 Q1 T1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL 17 / 180 = 0.094 2023 Q1 T1 PSYCHIATRY 45 / 279 = 0.161 2023 Q1 T1 1.705 2023 Psychiatry and Mental Health 2023 Q1 Medicine (miscellaneous) 2023 Q1 7.4 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Alacreu-Crespo, Adrián Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0633-2810 Fructuoso, Ana Perea-González, María Isabel Guija, Julio Antonio Giner, Lucas 4009 680 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Person.Eval.Trat.Psicoló. 84, 3 (2023), 14601[5 pp.] J. clin. psychiatry Journal of clinical psychiatry 0160-6689 823599 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135723/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 979720 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135723/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:135723 articulos driver 2024-11-22-12:08:30 ARTICLE