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| NIMH - Issues to Consider in Intervention Research with Persons at High Risk for Suicidality - http://www.nimh.nih.gov/SuicideResearch/highrisksuicide.cfm Offers guidance for those investigators conducting research on interventions to reduce suicidality, as well as for investigators likely to encounter persons at risk for suicidality in intervention trials involving persons with mental disorders. |
| SPRC - Review of Suicide Assessment Measures for Intervention Research with Adults and Older Adults. - http://library.sprc.org/item.php?id=49891&catid=1721 Reveals "this NIMH-funded review provides a systematic examination of the psychometric properties of measures of suicidal ideation and behavior for younger and older adults." |
| Youth Suicide Risk and Preventive Interventions: A Review of the Past 10 Years - http://www.jaacap.com/pt/re/jaacap/abstract.00004583-200304000-00005.htm;jsessionid=FZvJL5ss0Z9hW1FJQMLnVQc1TyMXFXBtJyPGW2r26ztFPKmhKHCx!-1640309041!-949856145!8091!-1 Read this research review that was published, in 2003, by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. |
| Protective factors against suicidal acts in major depression: reasons for living - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=10873915 Study concludes "during a depressive episode, the subjective perception of stressful life events may be more germane to suicidal expression than the objective quantity of such events." |
| NCBI - Cognitive behavioral treatment for suicidal alcohol abusing adolescents - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17182428&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Reveals preliminary results of this study suggest that integrated outpatient cognitive behavioral treatment for alcohol abusing suicidal adolescents is feasible, acceptable, and associated with symptomatic improvement. |
| NCBI - Suicidal Ideation among Adolescents with Alcohol Use Disorders during Treatment and Aftercare - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17182419&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Details "the objectives of this study are to assess the magnitude and course of suicidal ideation during outpatient treatment and aftercare for adolescents with alcohol use disorders." |
| NCBI - Characteristics of e-therapy web sites - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17017831&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Read an abstract of this study by PR Recupero and SK Rainey that concludes "with the wide variety in e-therapy services that are searchable on the Web, clinicians may want to be more aware of what their patients might encounter online." |
| NCBI - Social work education in suicide intervention and prevention: an unmet need? - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16978100&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Study reveals that a "Web-based survey of 598 social workers found that almost all respondents had worked with at least one suicidal client, but most received little, if any, training in suicide prevention or intervention while in graduate school." |
| Crisis occurrence and resolution in patients with severe and persistent mental illness: - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16485841&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum Subtitled, "The contribution of suicidality," this research finds assertive community treatment appears to have limited impact on the risk of suicide in persons with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). |
| Psychoanalytic perspectives on the treatment of an acute suicidal crisis - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16342290&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum Study notes that "recent clinical research, advances in the study of cognition, and neurobiological studies have contributed to the reorientation and enrichment of the psychoanalytic perspective on suicide." |
| Detecting suicidal ideation in older patients: identifying risk factors within the general practice - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=15826433 Research concludes that "although older general practice patients tend to present for issues related to their physical health, approximately a quarter of this cohort also possess high levels of psychological distress, including current thoughts of suicide |
| Adolescent suicide prevention. Current research and social policy implications - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8442571&dopt=Citation Notes "unfortunately, many of the intervention efforts have not benefited from current research findings because the communication between researchers and those who develop the interventions is inadequate." |
| Youth-nominated support team for suicidal adolescents (Version 1) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16551158&query_hl=15&itool=pubmed_DocSum Details "in this study, the authors investigated the efficacy of the Youth-Nominated Support Team-Version 1 (YST-1), a psychoeducational social network intervention, with 289 suicidal, psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents (197 girls, 92 boys)." |
| Prospective study of clinical predictors of suicidal acts after a major depressive episode... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=15285970 Details "interventions such as aggressive pharmacotherapeutic prophylaxis to prevent relapse or recurrence of depressive symptoms may protect such at-risk individuals from future suicidal behavior." |
| NCBI - Using NVDRS data for suicide prevention: promising practices in seven states - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17170167&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Concludes "the NVDRS can serve as a model for other countries looking to establish timely suicide surveillance systems and data driven prevention strategies." |
| NCBI - Suicidal behaviour in borderline personality disorder - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17117193&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Article in Norwegian, shares "clinicians need to assess the suicide risk for individuals in general and more situation-specific risks." |
| Impaired decision-making in suicide attempters may increase the risk of problems in affective... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17010445&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Concludes "altered decision-making may increase the risk of problematic affective relationships. These results underline the complex and possibly reciprocal link between environmental stress factors and cognitive vulnerability traits." |
| NCBI - Does availability of mental health resources prevent recurrent suicidal behavior? - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16978095&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Ecological analysis "examines whether availability of mental health resources in the county of residence is associated with subsequent suicidal behavior after a previous suicide attempt." |
| Protection of Human Subjects in Intervention Research for Suicidal Behavior - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/9/1558 Study concludes that it is possible to design a randomized, controlled trial that minimizes the risk of morbidity and mortality for suicidal patients with bipolar disorder, but deliberation is required to address the bioethical tensions that arise. |
| LEA - The Emerging Relationship of Psychology and the Internet: - http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327019eb0801_2?cookieSet=1&journalCode=eb Read an abstract of this study, by Craig A. Childress, and Joy K. Asamen, subtitled "Proposed Guidelines for Conducting Internet Intervention Research." |
| Effect of telephone contact on further suicide attempts in patients discharged from an emergency ... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16735333&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum Study concludes "contacting people by telephone one month after being discharged from an emergency department for deliberate self poisoning may help reduce the number of reattempted suicides over one year." |
| Moral objections to suicide: Can they counteract suicidality in patients with cluster B ... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16669727&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum Study concludes "the results of this study suggest that the presence of MOS/religious beliefs may have a protective effect against suicidal behavior in depressed patients with comorbid CBPD and may be a target for therapeutic intervention." |
| Integration of a suicide risk assessment and intervention approach: the perspective of youth - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16608470&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum Paper discussed the integration of a number of theories to establish a comprehensive assessment of risk of youth. |
| Personality traits as correlates of suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in young adults - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16332283&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum Study concludes "personality traits may make independent contributions to current suicidal ideation and previous suicide attempts in certain subgroups of suicidal individuals." |
| Characteristics of suicide attempts based on the suicidal intent scale scores, The - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16225083&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum Notes "the aim of the work was to present the characteristics of suicide attempts, distinguished on the basis of the scores in the Suicidal Intent Scale questionnaire (SIS), created by Aaron Beck, professor of psychiatry from Philadelphia." |
| Characteristics of Chinese suicide attempters: an emergency room study - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16463467&query_hl=15&itool=pubmed_DocSum Notes "study analyzed data of 74 suicide attempters and 92 accident injured patients admitted to 6 hospital emergency rooms in an area of Northeastern China and found both similarities and differences between Chinese and Western suicide attempters." |
| Suicide rates in relation to health care access in the United States: an ecological study - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16669716&query_hl=15&itool=pubmed_DocSum Study reports "the findings support the view that clinical intervention is a crucial element in the prevention of suicide." |
| Changes in the frequency of suicidal behaviour after a 2-year intervention campaign - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16523357&query_hl=15&itool=pubmed_DocSum Results of this study showed "the frequency of suicidal acts decreased significantly (-21.7%) compared to the control region. This reduction was mainly due to a lower rate of suicide attempts." |
| Predictors of continued suicidal behavior in adolescents following a suicide attempt - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=12679287 In this study "58 adolescents (53 female) who attempted suicide received a baseline evaluation that was analyzed to identify factors that were associated with continued suicidal ideation and reattempt." |
| Intentional self-poisonings among children and youth hospitalized in pediatric clinic - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17007287&query_hl=15&itool=pubmed_docsum Shares "aim of the study was to identify the most important factors that can favour suicide attempts among children and to establish the age of highest risk." |