Keeping in view the alarming rates of suicide behaviours during the COVID-19, a meta-analysis published in the journal Psychiatry Research emphasized the need of executing best practices in the prevention of suicide in order to decrease suicide behaviours through this pandemic. Efforts to decrease the spread of SARS-CoV-2 have led to widespread mental disorders.

According to experts, the mental, economic, behavioural, and psychosocial problems due to COVID-19 may lead to an increase in suicidal behaviour. But, a quantitative synthesis is required to attain an overall conclusion concerning the pandemic-suicide link. The study authors- Justin P Dube et al. meta-analyzed data from 308,596 individuals across 54 studies to study the COVID-19-suicidality link. Event rates for suicide thoughts, attempt to suicide, and self-harm during the COVID-19 pandemic increased as compared to the pre-COVID period, as illustrated in Table 1:

Moderation analysis revealed that younger individuals, females, and people from democratic nations were the most vulnerable to suicidal thoughts during the coronavirus disease pandemic. Thus. a concerning rise in suicide behaviors is occurring during the coronavirus pandemic.