Warning about negative mental health effects of the pandemic

Prof Ella Arensman, Professor of Public Mental Health at UCC, said that although there was no rise in suicide in the first months of Covid-19, we must be vigilant regarding long-term negative impacts of the pandemic.

Suicides did not increase significantly in the first months of the pandemic, according to the first worldwide study of its kind since March 2020.

However, Ireland's first Professor of Public Mental Health, one of the authors of the study, says we need to keep “vigilant”.