The Impact of Infectious Disease-Related Public Health Emergencies on Suicide, Suicidal Behavior, and Suicidal Thoughts

TZ reports being employed by the Scottish Government's National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group during the conduct of the study. Outside the submitted work, TZ reports grants from NHS Scotland Endowment Funds and is a co-chair of the Early Career Group of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. MJH reports grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, grants from Movember Canada, grants from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, during the conduct of the study. MS reports grants from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, grants from Alternative Funding Plan of the Academic Health Sciences Centres of Ontario, grants from University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Excellence Fund, grants from Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, grants from Mental Health Research Canada, grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, other from Google Canada, outside the submitted work; NEE reports grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, during the conduct of the study. SP reports personal fees from Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland, personal fees from NHS Health Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, outside the submitted work, and is co-chair of the Academic Advisory Group to the Scottish Government's National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group. RCO'C is a member of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence's guideline development group for the management of self-harm; is co-chair of the Academic Advisory Group to the Scottish Government's National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group; receives royalties from books, and occasional fees for workshops and invited addresses; and reports grants from Medical Research Foundation, the Mindstep Foundation, Chief Scientist Office, Medical Research Council, NHS Health Scotland, Scottish Government, and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). All other authors declare no competing interests.

Author statement following CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) guidelines (Allen et al., 2019). TZ and CB are joint first authors; MS and SP are joint last authors. Conceptualization: TZ, MJ, HMc, MMT, EA, PC, SH, MJH, PL, RCOC, GG, EW, MS, SP. Methodology: TZ, CB, MJ, HMc, MT, MMT, EA, PC, SH, MJH, PL, RCOC, NEE, GG, EW, MS, SP. Software: TZ. Validation: TZ, CB, MJ, MT, EA, PL, SP. Formal Analysis: TZ, CB, MJ, MJH. Investigation: TZ, CB, MJ, MT, MMT, EA, PC, SH, PL, YC. Resources: TZ, GG. Data Curation: TZ, CB, PC, PL. Writing – Original Draft: TZ, CB, MJ, MJH, MS, SP. Writing – Reviewing and Editing: TZ, CB, MJ, HMc, MT, MMT, EA, PC, SH, MJH, PL, RCOC, NEE, GG, MS, SP. Visualization: TZ, CB, MT, MMT. Supervision: EA, MJH, RCOC, MS, SP. Project Administration: TZ, EA, EW. Funding Acquisition: SH, MJH, NEE, EW, MS. Screening (titles & abstracts and/or full-text): TZ, CB, MJ, HMc, MMT, EA, PC, SH, MJH, PL, RCOC, NEE, YC, GG, MS. The corresponding author attests that all listed authors meet authorship criteria and that no others meeting the criteria have been omitted. TZ and CB act as guarantors.

A dataset with all abstracts screened by the research team will be made available in the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/7hzu5/) after the publication of the manuscript.