Marco Sarchiapone 1-2 , Jorge Lopez-Castroman 3 , Carla Gramaglia 4 , Enrique Baca-Garcia 5-9 , Francesca Baralla 1 , Maria Luisa Barrigón 5 , Silvia Bartollino 1 , Julian Beezhold 10-11 , Julio Bobes 12 , Raffaella Calati 13-14 , Narcís Cardoner 15 , Erminia Colucci 16 , Philippe Courtet 17 , Lavinia Duica 18 , Christine Dunkley 19 , Laura Dunkley 20 , Ricardo Gusmão 21 , Catarina Jesus 22 , Fabrice Jollant 23-27 , Alexandr Kasal 28-29 , Anisur Rahman Khan 30 , Philip Jules Simon Michielsen 31 , Péter Osváth 32 , Stephen Palmer 33-34 , Nuhamin Petros 35 , Mihai Pirlog 36 , Anna Plaza Estrada 37 , Pilar Saiz 12 , José Carlos Santos 38 , Alexandra Tubiana Potiez 39 , Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis 40 , Tereza Vitcheva 35 , Petr Winkler 28 , Patrizia Zeppegno 4 Increased risk for mental disorders and suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Position statement of the Section on Suicidology and Suicide Prevention of the European Psychiatric Association 1 Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. 2 Chair, Section of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention of the European Psychiatric Association. 3 University of Montpellier, INSERM and Nimes University Hospital, France. 4 Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy. 5 Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Jimenez Diaz Foundation, Madrid, Spain. 6 Department of Psychiatry, The Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. 7 CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación en Salud Mental), Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain. 8 Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile. 9 Department of psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes. 10 Mental Health Liaison Service, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK. 11 Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK. 12 Department of Psychiatry, Universidad de Oviedo, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias, Servicio de Salud del Principado de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain. 13 Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. 14 Department of Adult Psychiatry, Nîmes University Hospital, Nîmes, France. 15 Department of Mental Health, University Hospital Parc Taulí-I3PT, Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Carlos III Health Institute, Barcelona, Spain. 16 Department of Psychology, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, UK. 17 Department of Emergency Psychiatry and Acute Care, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. 18 “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, “Dr Gh. Preda” Psychiatric Hospital in Sibiu, Romania. 19 School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales. 20 Research Department Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK. 21 Hospital Magalhães de Lemos, Faculty of Medicine, EpiUnit, Public Health Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 22 Serviço de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental, Centro Hospitalar do Oeste, Portugal. 23 University of Paris (Paris-Descartes University), Paris, France. 24 GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Sainte-Anne Hospital, Paris, France. 25 McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Canada. 26 CHU de Nîmes, Nîmes, France. 27 National Observatory on Suicide, France. 28 Department of Public Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic. 29 Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. 30 Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh. 31 Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands & Mental Health institute, GGZ Westelijk Noord-Brabant, Halsteren, the Netherlands. 32 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Clinical Center, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary. 33 Wales Academy for Professional Practice and Applied Research, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Wales, UK. 34 Centre for Stress Management, London, UK. 35 National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 36 Medicine and Pharmacy University of Craiova, Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Craiova, Romania. 37 CPB Mental Health Services. Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Program. Barcelona, Spain. 38 Nursing School of Coimbra, Health Sciences Research Unit, Coimbra, Portugal. 39 Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology U6, Centre Psychothérapique de Nancy, Laxou, France. 40 Department of Health Sciences, HYMS, University of York, UK. *email: marco.sarchiapone@me.com © 2021 Marco Sarchiapone et al. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). GLOBAL PSYCHIATRY — Vol 4 | Issue 1 | 2021 4