Table 1.

Interrupted time-series models assessing the association between COVID-19 outbreak and monthly suicide rates by age groups in Taiwan.

Parameter estimate
Age groups	Overall		Below 25		25–44		45–64		65 and above
Variable	Estimate (s.e)	p-Value	Estimate (s.e)	p-Value	Estimate (s.e)	p-Value	Estimate (s.e)	p-Value	Estimate (s.e)	p-Value
Intercept	1.37	<0.01	−1.62	<0.01	1.37	<0.01	1.77	<0.01	8.94	<0.01
	(0.02)		(0.47)		(0.02)		(0.03)		(2.25)
Time			0.00	<0.01					−0.00	<0.01
			(0.00)						(0.00)
No. of Covid-19a	−0.10	<0.01			−0.16	<0.01	−0.26	<0.01
	(0.03)				(0.04)		(0.05)
Log(Covid-19Death)b									0.10	0.03
									(0.04)

s.e.: standard error.

^aCovid-19 is an indicator variable with the value 1 between Jan2020 and Dec2021 and 0 for the rest.

^bLog(Covid-19Death) is the logarithm transformation of Covid-19 death case.