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9 wrz 2024 · Moving suicide prevention beyond mental health alone will require a policy reset involving genuine whole-of-government commitment. National suicide prevention strategies need to reflect the impact on suicide of policies that sit outside the health sector as well as within it.
Suicide knows no boundaries and cuts across every sociodemographic level and all regions of the world. It is a global public health concern. Suicide is an issue that is shrouded in the loud noise of fear, shame, stigma and silence.
Educating youth regarding depression and suicidal behavior, and active outreach of psychiatric patients after discharge or a suicidal crisis, prevents suicidal behavior. Meta-analyses find antidepressants prevent suicide attempts, but individual RCTs appear under-powered.
13 lis 2023 · NIMH has made suicide prevention a priority, spurring large-scale research efforts to improve screening, risk assessment, and intervention. As a result, evidence-based strategies are now being implemented in health care settings across the country as a core component of the suicide prevention toolkit.
18 lut 2021 · In this review we show that the U.S. suicide rate increase relative to the rest of the world has occurred in the context of underutilized proven suicide prevention options. A critical review of suicide prevention methods is facilitated by an exponential increase in effectiveness data.
Suicidal thinking is typically discussed in one of three ways—as suicidal ideation, as suicidal intent in relation to a specific act of self-harm, or as part of a wider phenomenon of suicidality which can be taken to include thinking about or planning suicide along with actual episodes of non-fatal self-harm.
13 maj 2024 · Interest in preventing suicides has increased greatly in recent years. In this Personal View, we consider the general global developments related to suicide prevention that have occurred in the decade since The Lancet Psychiatry was first published in 2014.
