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Find evidence-based research and studies relating to suicide and suicide prevention from around the world.
| Adolescent Sexual Orientation and Suicide Risk: Evidence From a National Study - http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/8/1276 Study by Stephen T. Russell, PhD and Kara Joyner, PhD revelas that there is a strong link between adolescent sexual orientation and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. - [Read more] |
| Annals of Internal Medicine - Screening for Suicide Risk in Adults - http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/140/10/822 Subtitled "A Summary of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force," study reviews the literature to determine whether screening for suicide risk in primary care settings decreases morbidity, mortality, or both. - [Read more] |
| APA - Long-Term Lithium Therapy for Bipolar Disorder - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/2/217 Offers a "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials." See results. - [Read more] |
| Association between suicide attempts and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/330/7488/396 Subtitled "a systematic review of randomised controlled trials," this study documented an association between suicide attempts and the use of SSRIs. - [Read more] |
| Blackwell Synergy - Clinical management of deliberate self-harm in young people - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01532.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=anp Examines "the evidence for the effectiveness of clinical interventions designed to reduce the repetition of deliberate self-harm (DSH) in adolescents and young adults." See results. - [Read more] |
| Case Control Study of Suicide and Attempted Suicide in Older Adults, A - http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/suli.32.1.1.22184 Research finds that "the improved detection, treatment and management of mood disorders should be the primary focus of suicide prevention strategies for older adults." - [Read more] |
| Effectiveness of School-Based Mental Health Services for Children - http://www.springerlink.com/content/w72545689ph16612/ Kimberly Hoagwood and Holly D. Erwin offer this 10-year research literature review, from 1985 to 1995, on school-based mental health services for children. - [Read more] |
| Framework for Understanding “Evidence” in Prevention Research and Programs, A - http://www.springerlink.com/content/w3u5401xv776t737/ Read this report that "provides a multidimensional framework for understanding the meaning of evidence in prevention science." - [Read more] |
| Guilford Publications - Youth Suicide Prevention - http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/suli.31.1.5.6.24219 Read this 2001 paper that "reviews the extensive research literature on youth suicide that has emerged during the past two decades." - [Read more] |
| Importance of 'morality' in the social construction of suicide in Scottish newspapers , The - http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14032937 Read an abstract of this study that found "suicide stories in newspapers have been identified as an important risk factor for individual suicide because they provide real-life models for vulnerable individuals." - [Read more] |
| International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) - Task Forces: Systems Certifying Death - http://iasp.info/national_systems_for_certifying_suicidal_deaths.php International task force has been created to establish how researchers can best explain how suicides are tabulated in national database/vital registry systems. - [Read more] |
| JAMA - Cognitive Therapy for the Prevention of Suicide Attempts - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/5/563?etoc Offers an evidence-based study, determining "the effectiveness of a 10-session cognitive therapy intervention designed to prevent repeat suicide attempts in adults who recently attempted suicide." - [Read more] |
| JAMA - Suicide in Teenagers - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/286/24/3120 "A case of a 16-year-old scholar and athlete is presented to illustrate how multiple risk factors and a family diathesis often go undetected, resulting in tragic consequences." - [Read more] |
| JAMA - Suicide Prevention Strategies - http://jama.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/16/2064 Study examines evidence for the effectiveness of specific suicide-preventive interventions and makes recommendations for future prevention programs and research. - [Read more] |
| JAMA - Toxicology Testing and Results for Suicide Victims—13 States, 2004 - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/4/355 Details "more comprehensive toxicology testing for suicide victims might provide greater insight into trends and geographic variations in the role of substance use in suicides." - [Read more] |
| JAMA - Trends in Suicide Ideation, Plans, Gestures, and Attempts in the United States - http://jama.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/20/2487 Evidence-based study concludes that "despite a dramatic increase in treatment, no significant decrease occurred in suicidal thoughts, plans, gestures, or attempts in the United States during the 1990s." - [Read more] |
| JECH Online - Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide - http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/57/4/238?etoc Read this study that found that "a total of 293 findings from 42 studies on the impact of publicized suicide stories in the media on the incidence of suicide in the real world were analyzed by logistic regression analysis." - [Read more] |
| NCBI - An analysis of suicidal ideation in a college sample - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17178641&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Details two studies designed to develop and validate a model of current suicidal ideation. See discussion. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - An evidence-based approach to evaluating and managing suicidal emergencies - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10987687&dopt=Citation Offers a framework for making suicide risk estimations, as well as recommendations for the management of suicidal emergencies, that are useful to the practitioner. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Cyber-suicide: the role of the internet in suicidal behaviour - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17086945&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Article "describes two cases of attempted suicide which were prepared and carried out with the help of information on the Internet." - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Risk factors for suicidality in Europe: Results from the ESEMED study - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17074395&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Study concludes "in spite of meaningful country variation in prevalence, risk factors for suicidality are consistent in the European countries." - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Suicide in schizophrenia, clozapine, and adoption of evidence-based medicine - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15816797&dopt=Citation Concludes "Clozapine diminishes the frequency of suicidal behavior including serious suicidal acts, regardless of comedication with antidepressants." - [Read more] |
| NCBI - The decline in Australian young male suicide - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17079062&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Read this study that "examines time trends in age- and means-specific male and female Australian suicide rates in relation to unemployment rates and the NYSPS." - [Read more] |
| NCBI - The role of child and adolescent mental health services in suicide prevention in New Zealand - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17116074&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Reveals "CAMHS are currently under significant pressures, inadvertently leading to distortions of clinical practice away from the clinical needs of suicidal children, adolescents and their families towards risk assessment and risk management strategies. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Transcultural differences in suicide attempters - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17097854&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum View this analysis of a high-risk population of patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. - [Read more] |
| Open verdict v. suicide - importance to research - http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/178/5/465 Study concludes that "open verdicts should be included in all suicide research after excluding cases in which suicide was unlikely. Objective criteria are needed to facilitate comparison between different studies." - [Read more] |
| Psychiatric Services - Use of Mental Health Services in Chile - http://www.psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/55/1/71 Read this study that addresses "the growing burden of mental illness in Latin America, a better understanding of mental health service use and barriers to care is needed." - [Read more] |
| REST - Adolescent Suicide Attempts: Risks and Protectors - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/107/3/485 Study concludes that "an addition to risk reduction, promotion of protective factors may offer an effective approach to primary as well as secondary prevention of adolescent suicidal behavior." - [Read more] |
| Risk factors for suicide and attempted suicide among young people - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1614.2000.00691.x Study concludes that "current research evidence suggests that the strongest risk factors for youth suicide are mental disorders (in particular, affective disorders, substance use disorders and antisocial behaviours) and a history of psychopathology." - [Read more] |
| SAGE - Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants - http://jop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/3 Discover this British Association for Psychopharmacology paper subtitled, "a revision of the 1993 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines." - [Read more] |