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| 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." |
| Suicide prevention is possible: A review of recent studies - http://www.springerlink.com/content/8kva4e0jb62pqtqg/ Details "an examination of interventions using alternative research methodologies provides persuasive evidence of the effectiveness of a number of different management approaches." |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| SPRC - About Evidence=Based Practice - http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/ebpp/index.asp Learn about this research program offered by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). |
| Suicide prevention: a study of patients' views - http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/182/3/261 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.." |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| Use of army weapons and private firearms for suicide & homicide in the region of Basel, Switzerland - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17091825&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum 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." |
| 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. |
| Unemployment and suicide. Evidence for a causal association? - http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/57/8/594 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| SMHAI - Suicide Contagion (Clusters) - http://suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org/suiconclust.html Madelyn S. Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H. discusses her research on the topic of suicide contagion. |
| 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. |
| Socio-economic and psychological correlates of suicidality among Hong Kong working-age adults - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17129396&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Discover the results from this population-based survey. View methodology. |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| Suicide Rates Among Physicians: A Quantitative and Gender Assessment (Meta-Analysis) - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/12/2295 Reveals "studies on physicians’ suicide collectively show modestly (men) to highly (women) elevated suicide rate ratios." |