{"id":8508,"date":"2020-07-27T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8508"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:31:23","slug":"google-searches-for-suicide-and-suicide-risk-factors-in-the-early-stages-of-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/google-searches-for-suicide-and-suicide-risk-factors-in-the-early-stages-of-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Searches for Suicide and Suicide Risk Factors in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"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\">Halford et al. analyzed Google Trends data (March-April) representing searches in the US for terms related to suicide and known suicide risk factors and found that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0while the proportion of suicide-related queries was lower than expected, queries representative of financial difficulty, help-seeking, and general mental health concerns were elevated, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused an increase in suicide risk factors.<\/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\">Halford et al. (July 24, 2020). Google Searches for Suicide and Suicide Risk Factors in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic. PLOS ONE.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0236777\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0236777<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halford et al. analyzed Google Trends data (March-April) representing searches in the US for terms related to suicide and known suicide risk factors and found that,\u00a0while the proportion of suicide-related queries was lower than expected, queries representative of financial difficulty, help-seeking, and general mental health concerns were elevated, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic may have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/google-searches-for-suicide-and-suicide-risk-factors-in-the-early-stages-of-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">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-8508","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\/8508","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=8508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8509,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions\/8509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8508"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}