Suicide-Related Internet Searches During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jan 4;4(1):e2034261. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.34261.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla.
² Department of Computer Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York.
³ Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Division of Health Policy, University of California San Diego, La Jolla.
⁴ Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study assesses trends in suicide-related internet search rates in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US.