Patients at high risk of suicide before and during a COVID-19 lockdown: ecological momentary assessment study
Open accessAbstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak may have affected the mental health of patients at high risk of suicide. In this study we explored the wish to die and other suicide risk factors using smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in patients with a history of suicidal thoughts and behaviour. Contrary to our expectations we found a decrease in the wish to die during lockdown. This is consistent with previous studies showing that suicide rates decrease during periods of social emergency. Smartphone-based EMA can allow us to remotely assess patients and overcome the physical barriers imposed by lockdown.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In two studies, research personnel conducted an unspecified suicide risk assessment halfway through the 2-week EMA period, and in another study participants completed the CSSRS at baseline and follow-up and test assistants referred acute cases to the emergency department.
“In two studies, research personnel conducted an unspecified suicide risk assessment halfway through the 2-week EMA period (69), and in the other study participants completed the CSSRS at baseline and at follow-up and test assistants referred acute cases to the emergency department (70).”
From Don't Miss the Moment: A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment in Suicide Research (2022) · cites this paper as [70]
Digital phenotyping of suicidal ideators based on EMA data has so far been implemented by few.
“but so far implemented by few (50, 57, 70).”
From Don't Miss the Moment: A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment in Suicide Research (2022) · cites this paper as [70]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 14 · Cited by 18
- Authors
- Cobo, A., Porras-Segovia, A., Pérez-Rodríguez, M. M., Artés-Rodríguez, A., Barrigón, M. L., Courtet, P., & Baca-García, E.
- Affiliations
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- ORCID
- Venue
- BJPsych Open
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2021-04-16
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- e82-e82
- ISSN
- 2056-4724 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8060530
- OpenAlex
- W3152933662
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 2.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- BJPsych Open (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- e-Archivo (Carlos III University of Madrid) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (20151073, RTI2018-099655-B-I00, (LSRG-1-005-16), TEC2017-92552-EXP)
- Comunidad de Madrid (Y2018/TCS-4705, PRACTICO-CM, TEC2017-92552-EXP, Y2018/TCS-4705)
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (TEC2017-92552-EXP, RTI2018-099655-B-I00, RTI2018)
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII PI13/02200, ISCIII PI13/, LSRG-1-005-16, 20151073, CM19/00026, PI13/02200, PI16/01852)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- suicide risk, desire for death, COVID-19 lockdown, suicidal ideation, smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment, social emergency, mental health during pandemic
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
