Evaluation of Suicides Among US Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Jul 1;176(7):724-726. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.0515.

Authors

Marie-Laure Charpignon¹, Johnattan Ontiveros², Saahil Sundaresan³, Anika Puri³, Jay Chandra², Kenneth D Mandl³, Maimuna Shahnaz Majumder³

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
² Harvard College, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
³ Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the pattern of suicides from 2015 through 2020 among youth aged 10 to 19 years in 14 US states.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adolescent
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Suicide*

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