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."

Details "an examination of interventions using alternative research methodologies provides persuasive evidence of the effectiveness of a number of different management approaches."

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.

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."

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.

Research finds that "the improved detection, treatment and management of mood disorders should be the primary focus of suicide prevention strategies for older adults."

Learn about this research program offered by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).

Evidence-based study concludes "efforts at suicide prevention might usefully focus on enhancing patients' social networks, increasing the likelihood of early contact with psychiatric services and decreasing the stigma attached to psychiatric illness.."

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.

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."

Subtitled "a systematic review of randomised controlled trials," this study documented an association between suicide attempts and the use of SSRIs.

Offers a framework for making suicide risk estimations, as well as recommendations for the management of suicidal emergencies, that are useful to the practitioner.

Study examines evidence for the effectiveness of specific suicide-preventive interventions and makes recommendations for future prevention programs and research.

Concludes "Clozapine diminishes the frequency of suicidal behavior including serious suicidal acts, regardless of comedication with antidepressants."

Notes "records of suicides in the region of Basel between 1992 and 1996 were reviewed. Suicides with either army weapons or private firearms and suicides by other means were compared."

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.

Evidence-based study shows that "being unemployed was associated with a twofold to threefold increased relative risk of death by suicide, compared with being employed. About half of this association might be attributable to confounding by mental illness."

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 this 2001 paper that "reviews the extensive research literature on youth suicide that has emerged during the past two decades."

"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."

Offers a "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials." See results.

Read this report that "provides a multidimensional framework for understanding the meaning of evidence in prevention science."

Madelyn S. Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H. discusses her research on the topic of suicide contagion.

Details two studies designed to develop and validate a model of current suicidal ideation. See discussion.

Discover the results from this population-based survey. View methodology.

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."

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."

Discover this British Association for Psychopharmacology paper subtitled, "a revision of the 1993 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines."

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."

Reveals "studies on physicians’ suicide collectively show modestly (men) to highly (women) elevated suicide rate ratios."