Fear of COVID 2019: first suicidal case in India!
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Researchers in India have reported an increase in anxiety and depression among Indians owing to the pandemic.
“Researchers in India have reported an increase in anxiety and depression among Indians, owing to the pandemic (Goyal et al., 2020; Kumar and Nayar, 2020; Mishra et al., 2020; Rehman et al., 2020; Verma and Mishra, 2020).”
From Knowledge of COVID-19 and Its Influence on Mindfulness, Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Psychological Flexibility in the Indian Community (2020) · cites this paper as Goyal et al., 2020
The main text (page unavailable) says COVID-19’s spread sparked public panic and describes one man in India whose fear of infection preceded his suicide. It does not report an increase in anxiety and depression among Indians as a population, or identify depression in the case described. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Goyal, K., Chauhan, P., Chhikara, K., Gupta, P., & Singh, M. P.
- Affiliations
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Goyal, Kapil
- Venue
- Asian Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-03
- Volume
- 49
- Pages
- 101989
- ISSN
- 1876-2018 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7130010
- OpenAlex
- W3008019746
- Cited by
- 559
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 104 · 2021: 188 · 2020: 180
- FWCI
- 52.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Asian Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, fear, suicide, suicidal behavior, mental health, India
- MeSH terms
- Suicide, Completed, COVID-19, Fear, Humans, India, Male, Middle Aged
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