Suicide prevention and follow-up services: A narrative review
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Previous suicide attempt is the most important predictor of death by suicide. Thus preventive interventions after attempting to suicide is essential to prevent reattempts. This paper attempts to determine whether phone preventive interventions or other vehicles (postal cards, email and case management) are effective in reattempt prevention and health promotion after discharge by providing an overview of studies on suicide reattempts. The research investigated in this review conducted from 1995 to 2014. A total of 26 cases related to the aim of this research were derived from 36 English articles with the aforementioned keywords Research shows that providing comprehensive aids, social support, and follow-up after discharge can significantly prevent suicide reattempts. Several studies showed that follow-up support (phone calls, crisis cards, mails, postal cards.) after discharge can significantly decrease the risk of suicide. More randomized controlled trials (RCT) are required to determine what factors of follow-up are more effective than other methods.
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Although randomized clinical trials on follow-up interventions for suicidal patients are scarce, existing research generally suggests follow-up contacts may reduce repeat suicide attempts and prevent death by suicide for patients discharged from inpatient or emergency departments.
“Although there is a paucity of randomized clinical trials on follow-up interventions for suicidal patients, existing research generally suggests that follow-up contacts may reduce repeat suicide attempts and prevent death by suicide for patients discharged from inpatient or emergency departments.76,79,80”
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- Authors
- Ghanbari, B., Malakouti, S. K., Nojomi, M., Alavi, K., & Khaleghparast, S.
- Affiliations
- Iran University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Malakouti, Seyed Kazem
- Venue
- Global Journal of Health Science
- Published
- 2015-09-28
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 145
- ISSN
- 1916-9736 (ISSN-L)
- 1916-9744
- PMC
- PMC4877223
- OpenAlex
- W2128217144
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Global Journal of Health Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- suicide prevention, suicide attempts, repeated suicide attempts, follow-up care, telephone-delivered intervention, postcards, email intervention, case management, social support, health promotion, hospital discharge
- MeSH terms
- Suicide Prevention, Humans, Postal Service, Social Support, Suicide, Attempted, Telephone, Case Management, Electronic Mail
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