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SIO323: Did COVID Precautions Increase Adolescent Suicide Risk?

Feb 19, 2022

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Suicidal Behavior in Adolescent Girls

02:49

Is There Evidence That Suicidality Has Increased?

05:00

Are Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Suicide Attempts Going Down?

02:22

Introduction

3min

Can 95 Kids Masks - What's the Cost?

2min

Is There Evidence That Suicide Attempts Are Up in Teens?

2min

Is There Evidence That Suicidality Has Increased?

5min

Is the Rate of Emergency Department Visits Going Up?

2min

Suicidal Behavior in the Pandemic

2min

Suspected Suicide Attempts

3min

The First Spring Observation Period

2min

Pandemic Vaccines

3min

10.

Suicidality - Is There a Component of Suicide?

2min

11.

Is Remote Schooling a Precursor to Suicidality?

2min

12.

Do You See an Increase in Suicide Attempts?

2min

13.

Suicidal Behavior in Adolescent Girls

3min

14.

Suicidal Behavior Trends Across the Year

4min

15.

Ik, Kind of Evens Out.

1min

16.

Are Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Suicide Attempts Going Down?

2min

17.

Suicidal Behavioris Up Among 12 to 17 Year Old Girls

2min

18.

Is This a Pandemic?

3min

19.

Is Social Media Driving the Suicide Epidemic?

2min

20.

The Increase in Successful Suicides in the United States

2min

21.

Suicide Risk and School Closures - What's the Difference?

2min

22.

The Effects of Masks on Anxiety

2min

23.

The Effects of Online Learning on Mental Health

2min

24.

The Suicide Epidemic in Kids

2min

That's the claim made by many right wing anti COVID restriction people. What's more, it seems to be based on a CDC report. So is there anything to it? Find out!

Links: Yard et al (2021) CDC report, Popular press coverage of report 1, 2, 2020 CDC report (claiming that adolescent ED visits for mental health increased by 31% in 2020 compared to 2019), CDC Reports on decline in total ED visits for March/April 2020, Through March 2021, Timing of State and Territorial COVID-19 Response, CDC Mortality data 2014-2019, 2020-2022 (provisional), WISQARS nonfatal injury reports, WISQARS fatal injury reports, Lindsey's Graphs

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