{"id":76847,"date":"2020-09-28T00:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/military-suicides-up-as-much-as-20-during-covid-19-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T00:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:21:52","slug":"military-suicides-up-as-much-as-20-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/military-suicides-up-as-much-as-20-during-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"#Military suicides up as much as 20% during COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Military suicides up as much as 20% during COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong>”
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\n Suicides among military members have spiked by as much as 20 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the same period last year, data shows.<\/p>\n

Senior military officials say they believe that it\u2019s difficult to pinpoint what\u2019s driving the rise, though note that the timing coincides with the stateside outbreak of coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Preliminary data had shown for the first three months of 2020 show a dip in military suicides across the active duty and reserves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say scientifically, but what I can say is \u2014 I can read a chart and a graph, and the numbers have gone up in behavioral health related issues,\u201d Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot say definitively it is because of COVID. But there is a direct correlation from when COVID started, the numbers actually went up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The jumps in suicide rates vary among the different branches of service.<\/p>\n

Army officials said there was a 30 percent spike among active-duty Army members this year, while the Army Guard is up about 10 percent and the Navy\u2019s rates are believed to be lower.<\/p>\n

The Air Force saw suicides among active-duty and reserve members on par with the rate from last year \u2014 which was the worst in three decades for active-duty members in the branch.<\/p>\n

Gen. Charles Brown, the Air Force chief, noted that pandemic-related stress could be playing a role in the numbers this year, which had also initially seen rates plummet before lockdowns began.<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID adds stress,\u201d Brown said in a public remarks. \u201cFrom a suicide perspective, we are on a path to be as bad as last year. And that\u2019s not just an Air Force problem, this is a national problem because COVID adds some additional stressors \u2013 a fear of the unknown for certain folks.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Helis, director of the Army\u2019s resilience programs, said that a combination of issues stemming from the pandemic \u2014 isolation, financial issues, remote schooling and loss of child care \u2014 had placed added stress on service members and their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that the measures we took to mitigate and prevent the spread of COVID could amplify some of the factors that could lead to suicide,\u201d Helis said.<\/p>\n

Senior officials said they\u2019re looking at changes such as potentially shortening deployments, which have increased because of two-week quarantine periods.<\/p>\n

Gen. James McConville, the Army chief of staff, said there\u2019s a new focus on \u201cthe time that they need to come back together and recover.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very focused on readiness four years ago because we had some readiness challenges, and we did a great job. The force is very, very ready now. But I think it\u2019s time now to focus on people,\u201d he told the AP.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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