The number of suicides among students at national universities reached 2020 per 10 population in 17.6, the highest number in the past six years, according to a survey by Yasuko Fuse, director of the Ibaraki University Health Care Center. ..Fuse analyzes that the suicide rate in Japan as a whole started to increase in 6 for the first time in 2020 years, but the same tendency can be seen in students at national universities.
The survey was analyzed by the Mental Health Committee of the National University Health Management Facility Council, asking for information on the gender and cause of death of students who died in 82 from 2020 national universities nationwide.
それによると、82校の学生43万3032人（男性27万3308人、女性15万9724人）のうち、男性58人、女性18人の合計76人が自殺もしくは自殺と思われる死因で死亡していた。人口10万人当たりの自殺者数は17.6人で、うち男性は21.2人、女性は11.3人に上った。
The number of college student suicides has been declining recently due to the gradual economic recovery and the employment front of the seller market, but male college students are the largest in the past six years since 2015, and female college students are the largest in the past eight years since 6. became.
In 2020, due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, university classes were switched from face-to-face to online, and the self-restraint of club activities continued, and the isolation of students emerged as a social problem.Professor Fuse and his colleagues plan to analyze the characteristics of students who have committed suicide and try to understand the risk factors that lead to suicide. I think it may be related to what you are doing.
Paper information:[Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences] Increase in suicide rates among undergraduate students in Japanese national universities during the COVID-19 pandemic
