MMWR Early Release, CDC. (2021, June 11). Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Suicide Attempts Among Persons Aged 12–25 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, January 2019–May 2021. In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm#contribAff- This article discusses the emergency department visits among adolescents during 2020 and 2021. It also discusses the statistics and the approach we should consider for this situation.
Hill, R. M., Rufino, K., Kurian, S., Saxena, J., Saxena, K., & Williams, L. (2021, March). Suicide Ideation and Attempts in a Pediatric Emergency Department Before and During COVID-19. In American Academy of Pediatrics. Retrieved from https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/147/3/e2020029280- The article describes how in different time periods during the COVID-19 pandemic, the suicide attempt rates rose and fell with the rise and fall of COVID-19 statistics. This indicates that the pandemic was indeed a major factor in the suicide attempts in adolescents.
Dolgin, R. (2021). The Impact Of Covid-19 On Suicide Rates. In Psycom. Retrieved from https://www.psycom.net/covid-19-suicide-rates- This article discusses how people were not only prone to the illness and death of the pandemic but also to what they called “deaths of despair,” or suicides.
What has been the effect of the pandemic on the suicide rate of the U.S. population?. (2021, June 21). In Health Feedback. Retrieved from https://healthfeedback.org/what-has-been-the-effect-of-the-pandemic-on-the-suicide-rate-of-the-u-s-population/- This article talks about how the suicide rates in the US didn’t increase at all, but instead, the attempt rates spiked during the pandemic. It talked about how there had been a steady incline in suicide rates for decades, and although the suicide attempts rates went up, the actual suicide death rates went down.
Percentage change in mean number of ED visits per week for suspected suicide attempts amongyoung U.S. adults during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2021, by gender. (2021, June). In Statista. Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1247261/suicide-attempt-rate-change-among-us-young-adults-during-covid-by-gender/- This article gives different statistics through the pandemic of the suicide attempt rates and the increases in men compared to women, age differences, and month.
Slotnik, D. E. (2021, June 11). E.R. visits following suspected suicide attempts rose among U.S. teen girls during the pandemic. In The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/world/cdc-covid-suicide.html- This article relays the facts of the increase in suicide attempt rates during the pandemic based on the CDC. The article also references different researchers throughout, giving facts and opinions about the matter.
Banyard, V., & Hamby, S. (2021). Strengths-Based Prevention: Reducing Violence and OtherPublic Health Problems. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association.- This book helps give guidelines to design prevention programs for behavior problems. The book gives a more broad understanding of what methods work better, and how to see what methods will work when creating prevention programs.