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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 (Goyal et al., 2020; Kumar and Nayar, 2020; Mishra et al., 2020; Rehman et al., 2020; Verma and Mishra, 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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