Perceived Impact of COVID-19 Among Callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Crisis
; 2022 Sep 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2016567
ABSTRACT
Background:
Research indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic caused increases in psychological distress and suicidal ideation.Aims:
To describe the ways suicidal callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) perceived COVID-19 to have impacted them and assess whether these callers perceived COVID-19-related stress as contributing to their suicidal thoughts.Method:
Telephone interviews were conducted with 412 suicidal callers to 12 Lifeline centers. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine the associations between demographic factors and individual COVID-19 stressors and to determine whether callers who endorsed COVID-19-related stress as contributing to their suicidal thoughts differed from those who did not regarding demographics, current suicide risk, history of suicidality, Lifeline use, or individual COVID-19 stressors.Results:
Over half of callers reported that COVID-19-related stress contributed to their suicidal ideation (CRSSI). Callers who endorsed CRSSI had higher odds than those who did not of mentioning financial difficulties when asked how COVID-19 impacted them. The two groups of callers did not differ on the other factors examined.Limitations:
Interviewed callers may not be representative of all Lifeline callers.Conclusion:
Despite the subjective burden of COVID-19-related stress on suicidal Lifeline callers, this was not associated with new suicidality or heightened suicide risk.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Language:
English
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
0227-5910
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