https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/33/1/33_JE20220186/_article/-char/en

PMC

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9727214/

Highlights

• Japan has witnessed an unusual increase in the number of suicides among women during the novel coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
• The observed to expected (O/E) ratios of suicides among women were evaluated in terms of job status, suicide motive, and age while considering the time-series trends for changes in the unemployment rate.
• The O/E ratio in almost all categories was significantly above 1.0 from March to December 2020, and the increase continued until October 2021.
• Comprehensive measures to prevent suicide might have been important during the pandemic, instead of limiting interventions to the reported specific population.

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