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“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).”
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Wright, K., Sarangi, A., & Ibrahim, Y. (2020) · The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles · doi:10.12746/swrccc.v8i35.727 · Cited by 37
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Khoury-Malhame, M. E., Malhab, S. B., Chaaya, R., Sfeir, M., & Khoury, S. E. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1267603 · Cited by 39
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“Moreover, this serious scenario could also be worsened by an amplification of fear (3), by media or social networks, spreading panic or fake news, or by false-positive diagnosis (for instance, in India, a family man committed suicide to protect his family following a false-positive diagnosis of COVID-19).”
Backgroundde Sousa, A. R., Teixeira, J. R. B., Palma, E. M. S., Moreira, W. C., Santos, M. B., de Carvalho, H. E. F., Almeida, É. S., Florêncio, R. M. S., de Queiroz, A. M., das Mercês, M. C., et al. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19010350 · Cited by 29
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“The case of Rajkaran Shukla is unique as he was not living with a fear of being infected with COVID-19, as seen in earlier cases of suicide amid this pandemic (Goyal et al., 2020; Mamun and Griffiths, 2020; Sahoo et al., 2020).”
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“In acute cases, these problems have even led to suicides among nurses in countries such as India and Italy [4,5], which shows the importance of this structure.”
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Mahato, P. K., Tamang, P. D., Simkhada, P. P., Shahi, P., van Teijlingen, E., Aryal, N., & Regmi, P. (2020) · Europasian Journal of Medical Sciences · doi:10.46405/ejms.v2i2.91 · Cited by 28
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“The COVID-19-related stressors have caused people to experience common mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, panic and social isolation, which in turn led to actual suicide in different countries such as Bangladesh and India (Goyal et al., 2020; Mamun & Griffiths, 2020).”
BackgroundTsunami after the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: A global wave of suicide?
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Dixit, S., & Girish, N. (2021) · Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine · doi:10.31083/j.rcm.2021.01.187 · Cited by 27
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“Some people with a positive infection result, or even suspected infection, performed suicide to ensure that others were not infected (Griffiths and Mamun 2020; Thakur and Jain 2020; Goyal et al. 2020).”
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BackgroundCoping with COVID-19 in an international border region: health and economy
Silva-Sobrinho, R. A., Zilly, A., da Silva, R. M. M., Arcoverde, M. A. M., Deschutter, E. J., Palha, P. F., & Bernardi, A. S. (2021) · Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem · doi:10.1590/1518-8345.4659.3398 · Cited by 47
“There are current reports of suicides driven by the SARS/CoV2 pandemic in Bangladesh and India, mediated by prejudice and fear of disseminating the disease(25-26).”
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“In an Indian study, more than 80% of the individuals reported a perceived need for mental healthcare (29).”
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“The color atrix, with ‘blue’ representing positive correlations of a positive effect, heightened perceptions of concern and susceptibility have been linked to potential selfharm (Bao et al., 2020; Goyal, 2020; Li et al., 2020; Montemurro, 2020).”
BackgroundMoreta‐Herrera, R., López-Calle, C., Caycho‐Rodríguez, T., Guerra, C. B. C., Gallegos, M., Cervigni, M., Martino, P., Barés, I., & Calandra, M. (2021) · Death Studies · doi:10.1080/07481187.2021.1914240 · Cited by 23
“Additionally, other negative psychological consequences have been reported, such as increase in suicide cases (Brooks et al., 2020; Goyal et al., 2020; Mamun & Griffiths, 2020); the increase in drug use and abuse (Chiappini et al., 2020; Mallet et al., 2021; Volkow, 2020).”
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“Correspondingly, studies carried out in countries such as the USA, China, and India on COVID-19 perception have shown that coronavirus- induced fear levels were above average (Goyal et al., 2020; Lai, Ma, Wang, & Hu, 2020; Lee, 2020).”
Gender Differences in the Factors Associated With the Fear of COVID-19 Among Taiwanese Older People
Li, Y., Lin, C., Kuo, Y., Chen, Y., & Griffiths, M. D. (2021) · INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing · doi:10.1177/00469580211055587 · Cited by 23
“All of the items are rated on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), where a higher score indicates a higher level of fear toward COVID-19.”
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Save life or livelihood: Responses to COVID-19 among South-Asian poor communities
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“four attempts and 12 suicides) were related to the pandemic (Goyal et al., 2020), and most of them were experiencing economic recession and four were feared to have the infection.”
BackgroundDrug Interactions of Psychiatric and COVID-19 Medications
Mohebbi, N., Talebi, A., Moghadamnia, M., Nazari, Z., & Shakiba, A. (2020) · Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal · doi:10.32598/bcn.11.covid19.2500.1 · Cited by 23
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“2 COVID-19 and mental health were published in our Journal (Ahmed et al., 2020; Banerjee, 2020; Goyal et al., 2020; Mamun and Griffiths, 2020; Rajkumar, 2020; Roy et al., 2020; Tandon, 2020a and 2020b, Zandifar and Badrfam, 2020) and each of these has been cited over 100 times in the scientific literature.”
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“The overflow of uncertainty, exaggerated facts, and false information about COVID-19 on social media also triggers panic that may lead to extreme behavior like suicide (Goyal et al., 2020).”
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“It is important to note that there have been cases of suicides among healthcare workers globally during the COVID-19 outbreak (Goyal et al., 2020; Jahan et al., 2021; Mamun et al., 2020; Montemurro, 2020; Mukhtar, 2020) and therefore organizations may want to provide physicians, nurses, and allied…”
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“…workers (Canada’s National Observer, 2020), government officials looking after Wuhan returnees (The Japan Times, 2020), young people in lockdown (Yahoo News Australia, 2020), and suspected cases of COVID (Goyal et al., 2020), frequently highlighting risk in vulnerable individuals or populations.”
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“To date, the fear of COVID-19 has led some individuals to commit suicide (Goyal et al., 2020;Mamun & Griffiths, 2020) and the size of the problem is so large that some scholars have built ad-hoc scales (Ahorsu et al.”
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Sources of news as a necessity for improving community health literacy about COVID-19.
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“The misinformation from various sources with negative attitude increase the levels of stress and anxiety (Goyal et al., 2020)”
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Metadata
- 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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