{"id":7200,"date":"2020-05-28T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:03:25","slug":"projected-increases-in-suicide-in-canada-as-a-consequence-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/28\/projected-increases-in-suicide-in-canada-as-a-consequence-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Increases in Suicide in Canada\u00a0as a Consequence\u00a0of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">McIntyre and Lee predict the number of excess suicides in Canada resulting from the impact of COVID-19 on unemployment. They estimate that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an incremental 1-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">percentage point increase in unemployment from 2020 to 2021\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">would be<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">associated with a 1.0% increase in the suicide rate. Assuming a small increase in unemployment (1.2-1.6%), they predict\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a total of 418<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0excess suicides in 2020-2021. Assuming<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0large increase in unemployment (8.9-10.7%), they predict\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a total of 2,114<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">excess suicides in 2020-2021.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">McIntyre and Lee. (May 19, 2020). Projected Increases in Suicide in Canada\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">as a Consequence<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0of COVID-19. Psychiatry Research.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.psychres.2020.113104\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.psychres.2020.113104<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIntyre and Lee predict the number of excess suicides in Canada resulting from the impact of COVID-19 on unemployment. They estimate that\u00a0an incremental 1-percentage point increase in unemployment from 2020 to 2021\u00a0would be\u00a0associated with a 1.0% increase in the suicide rate. Assuming a small increase in unemployment (1.2-1.6%), they predict\u00a0a total of 418\u00a0excess suicides in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/28\/projected-increases-in-suicide-in-canada-as-a-consequence-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-7200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}