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Google Searches During Pandemic May Hint at More Suicides to Come
PLOS One.Since previous studies have shown that financial distress is significantly linked to suicide mortality, researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center fear that the increase may predict a future increase in suicide deaths.“The scale of the increase in Google searches related to financial distress and disaster relief during the early months of the pandemic was remarkable, so this finding is concerning,” says Madelyn Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H., Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and senior author of the study.Researchers have begun studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, but the impact on suicidal behavior and deaths is
