Racial Differences in Statewide Suicide Mortality Trends in Maryland During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

JAMA Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 1;78(4):444-447. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3938.

Authors

Michael Johnathan Charles Bray¹, Nicholas Omid Daneshvari¹, Indu Radhakrishnan², Janel Cubbage², Michael Eagle³, Pamela Southall³, Paul Sasha Nestadt¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study analyzes trends in suicidality by race/ethnicity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Black People* / psychology
Black People* / statistics & numerical data
Black or African American
COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Communicable Disease Control / organization & administration
Humans
Maryland / epidemiology
Mortality* / ethnology
Mortality* / trends
Race Factors
SARS-CoV-2
Suicide, Completed* / prevention & control
Suicide, Completed* / statistics & numerical data
Suicide, Completed* / trends
White People* / psychology
White People* / statistics & numerical data