id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-258126-8ityzjjh Mamun, Mohammed A. COVID-19 suicides in Pakistan, dying off not COVID-19 fear but poverty? – The forthcoming economic challenges for a developing country 2020-05-11 .txt text/plain 1488 92 52 Besides, another non-representative study utilizing only 7-cases claims that the global COVID-19 suicide risk factors to be -(i) social isolation and distancing, (ii) economic recession, (iii) mental problems among healthcare professional, and (iv) social boycott and discrimination etc. Like the previous retrospective suicide researches conducted in the Pakistan's neighborhood south Asian countries (e.g., India, Armstrong et al., 2019; Bangladesh, Mamun et al., 2020a, b) where the national suicide database is unavailable, the present study followed the methods of extracting suicide data from press reports. Although previous case studies from the Pakistan neighborhood countries, such as in Bangladesh and in India, COVID-19 suicides are reported to be due to fear of infection and social boycott (Goyal et al., 2020; Mamun & Griffiths, 2020) . Despite the limitations, the present study by reporting all the available Pakistani COVID-19 suicide cases, provides a novel data on lockdown-related economic crisis and recession that has not studied elsewhere. ./cache/cord-258126-8ityzjjh.txt ./txt/cord-258126-8ityzjjh.txt