Abstract

 Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Loneliness and staying at home for a long time during the quarantine of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) could definitely be associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Tension, anxiety, worry, and depression accompanied by the COVID-19 information could induce suicidal attacks among healthy persons. In this commentary, we tried to explore the possible association and risk factors of suicide in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; Suicide; Depression

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Citation

Citation: Ahmed M Abbas., et al. “Suicide in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Is there an Association?". Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports 1.6 (2020): 11-12.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Ahmed M Abbas., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.