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Article Dans Une Revue European Journal of Epidemiology Année : 2022

Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study

Jules-Antoine Vaucel
Nicolas Enaud
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Camille Paradis
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Coralie Bragança
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Arnaud Courtois
Maxime Lan
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Cédric Gil-Jardine
Raphaël Enaud
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Magali Labadie
Marie Deguigne
Gaël Le Roux
Alexis Descatha
Ramy Azzouz
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Patrick Nisse
Anne-Marie Patat
Nathalie Paret
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Ingrid Blanc-Brisset
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Audrey Nardon
Luc De Haro
Nicolas Simon
Nicolas Delcourt
Fanny Pelissier
Christine Tournoud
Emmanuel Puskarczyk
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Jérôme Langrand
Hervé Laborde-Casterot
Weniko Care

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Abstract Concerns have been raised about early vs. later impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal behavior. However, data remain sparse to date. We investigated all calls for intentional drug or other toxic ingestions to the eight Poison Control Centers in France between 1st January 2018 and 31st May 2022. Data were extracted from the French National Database of Poisonings. Calls during the study period were analyzed using time trends and time series analyses with SARIMA models (based on the first two years). Breakpoints were determined using Chow test. These analyses were performed together with examination of age groups (≤ 11, 12–24, 25–64, ≥ 65 years) and gender effects when possible. Over the studied period, 66,589 calls for suicide attempts were received. Overall, there was a downward trend from 2018, which slowed down in October 2019 and was followed by an increase from November 2020. Number of calls observed during the COVID period were above what was expected. However, important differences were found according to age and gender. The increase in calls from mid-2020 was particularly observed in young females, while middle-aged adults showed a persisting decrease. An increase in older-aged people was observed from mid-2019 and persisted during the pandemic. The pandemic may therefore have exacerbated a pre-existing fragile situation in adolescents and old-aged people. This study emphasizes the rapidly evolving situation regarding suicidal behaviour during the pandemic, the possibility of age and gender differences in impact, and the value of having access to real-time information to monitor suicidal acts.

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hal-03905688 , version 1 (18-12-2022)

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Jules-Antoine Vaucel, Nicolas Enaud, Camille Paradis, Coralie Bragança, Arnaud Courtois, et al.. Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study. European Journal of Epidemiology, 2022, 37 (9), pp.901-913. ⟨10.1007/s10654-022-00907-z⟩. ⟨hal-03905688⟩

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