Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: September | Volume: 8 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 218-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210929
Study of Comparison of Suicidal Cases in the Lockdown Period During First Wave of COVID-19 with that of Suicidal Cases in the Period before it among Dead Bodies Brought for Autopsy at Nalanda Medical College, Patna - A Record Review
Rajiv Ranjan Das1, Kumar Saurav2, Radha Raman Singh3
1Associate Professor, Department of F.M.T, Nalanda Medical College, Patna, India
2Tutor, Department of F.M.T, Nalanda Medical College, Patna, India
3Associate Professor, Department of F.M.T, Nalanda Medical College, Patna, India
Corresponding Author: Kumar Saurav
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world, physically, psychologically and socio-economically. It has caused extreme mental stress to not only those infected but also those who had to remain indoors for prolonged period due to lockdown.
Aims and Objectives:
1. To study and compare all confirmed suicidal deaths in the first lockdown period upto its peak period (September 2020) with suicidal cases during the previous six months from October 2019 to 24th march 2020.
2. Demographic analysis of suicidal cases with determinants like incidence, sex, & age wise distribution, mode of suicide, any specific causes etc, will be studied & evaluated for any perceptible change from earlier prelockdwn suicidal deaths
Materials and Methods: It is retrospective, record review analytical and comparative study based on postmortem examination reports of all cases conducted by all doctors of department of FMT, Nalanda Medical College, Patna who did autopsy during both periods (pre lockdown & post lockdown/unlock) together with study of all police inquests, requisitions (challans), sent by the police investigating officers of concerned cases.
Study period- a) 25th march 2020 to September 2020 (lockdown phase). b) October 2019 to 24th march 2020 (Prelockdown phase).
Results: Total number of suicides increase from 6.61%in pre-covid period to 8.56% in lockdown period. In the prelockdown phase the cases of hanging were 66.66% but due to poisoning 33.34%. But in the lockdown phase hanging accounted for the 95.45% and poisoning just 4.55%.
Conclusions: Lockdown must be needed based, preplanned and financial support to the needy together with behavioural counseling should be undertaken in letter and spirit. There is an urgency to realize the severity of this suicidal tendency.
Keywords: covid, lockdown, suicide, hanging, autopsy.
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