Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries

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Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the help that the ICSPRC has received from IASP in establishing and supporting its activities. This study was supported by the ADP, which is funded by MQ Mental Health Research Charity (grant reference MQBF/3 ADP). ADP and the authors acknowledge the data providers who supplied the datasets enabling this study. The views expressed are entirely those of the authors and should not be assumed to be the same as those of ADP or MQ Mental Health Research Charity.r The authors acknowledge the Queensland Mental Health Commission for funding the Queensland Suicide Register from 2013 to the present day and Queensland Health for funding the register from 1990-2013. The authors acknowledge the Coroners Court of Queensland and the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety as the source organisations of data, and the National Coronial Information System as the database source of data. The authors also acknowledge Queensland Police Service staff for sending police reports of suspected suicides. The authors would also like to thank the team working on the living systematic review of COVID-19 and suicidal behaviour: Emily Eyles, Luke McGuinness, Babatunde K Olorisade, Lena Schmidt, Catherine MacLeod Hall, and Julian Higgins (University of Bristol), and Chukwudi Okolie and Dana Dekel (University of Swansea). JP is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant (GNT1173126). AJ is funded by MQ (MQBF/3) and the Medical Research Council (MC_PC_17211). MDP-B is funded by Health and Care Research Wales (CA04). VA is supported by Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. EA is supported by the Health Research Board Ireland (IRRL-2015-1586). AB is supported by the EU Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Programme (2019-1-SE01-KA203-060571). NK is supported by the University of Manchester, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre. OJK is supported by a Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO 1257821N). DK is funded by the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, University of Bristol, and the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund. TN has been supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund through project COV20-027. RCO'C reports grants from Samaritans, Scottish Association for Mental Health, Mindstep Foundation, NIHR, Medical Research Foundation, Scottish Government, and NHS Health Scotland/Public Health Scotland. MRP is supported in part by a grant from the Global Alliance of Chronic Diseases and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation of China (81371502). PLP is an employee of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. AR, CR-L, and CS are responsible for Frankfurter Projekt zur Pravention von Suiziden mittels Evidenz-basierten Ma ss nahem (FraPPE; Frankfurt Project to prevent suicides using evidence-based measures), which is funded by the German Ministry. MS is supported by Academic Scholar Awards from the Departments of Psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto. MW is funded by a Focus Grant from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (IIG-0-002-17). DGu is supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol. MJS is a recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT180100075).