Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide and self-harm among patients presenting to the emergency department of a teaching hospital in Nepal

• Roshana Shrestha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Roshana Shrestha, Anmol Purna Shrestha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roshanashrestha@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7275-0615

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• Shisir Siwakoti ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal

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• Saumya Singh ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal

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• Anmol Purna Shrestha

  Contributed equally to this work with: Roshana Shrestha, Anmol Purna Shrestha

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2508-8534

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