Firearms are Used More Often in Suicide Than Other Means: Suicide is the 11th Leading Cause of Death in Delaware: Suicide Prevention Conference Scheduled for April 24th

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death

Wiser Reasoning and Less Disgust Have the Potential to Better Achieve Suicide Prevention

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Chao S. Hu ◽  
Jiajia Ji ◽  
Jinhao Huang ◽  
Zhe Feng ◽  
Dong Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Suicide Method ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Advice Giving ◽  
Prevention Techniques

Abstract. Background: High school and university teachers need to advise students against attempting suicide, the second leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds. Aims: To investigate the role of reasoning and emotion in advising against suicide. Method: We conducted a study with 130 students at a university that specializes in teachers' education. Participants sat in front of a camera, videotaping their advising against suicide. Three raters scored their transcribed advice on "wise reasoning" (i.e., expert forms of reasoning: considering a variety of conditions, awareness of the limitation of one's knowledge, taking others' perspectives). Four registered psychologists experienced in suicide prevention techniques rated the transcripts on the potential for suicide prevention. Finally, using the software Facereader 7.1, we analyzed participants' micro-facial expressions during advice-giving. Results: Wiser reasoning and less disgust predicted higher potential for suicide prevention. Moreover, higher potential for suicide prevention was associated with more surprise. Limitations: The actual efficacy of suicide prevention was not assessed. Conclusion: Wise reasoning and counter-stereotypic ideas that trigger surprise probably contribute to the potential for suicide prevention. This advising paradigm may help train teachers in advising students against suicide, measuring wise reasoning, and monitoring a harmful emotional reaction, that is, disgust.

scholarly journals Suicide prevention in low- and middle-income countries: part perceptions, partial solutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 211 (5) ◽  
pp. 264-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Personal Distress ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low And Middle Income

SummarySuicide, a common cause of death in many low- and middle-income countries, has often been viewed through a medical/psychiatric lens. Such perspectives medicalise social and personal distress and suggest individual and medication-based treatments. This editorial argues for the need to examine suicide from a public health perspective and suggests the need for population-based social and economic interventions.

Suicide

2020 ◽  
pp. 363-380
Author(s):  
Danuta Wasserman ◽  
Marcus Sokolowski ◽  
Vladimir Carli
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Physician Education ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Iatrogenic Effects ◽  
School Based ◽  
Prevention Programmes

Suicide is a leading cause of death and is preventable. This chapter identifies landmark papers from three areas within the field of suicide prevention that are important for trainees, experienced clinicians, and policymakers alike. Firstly, it reviews papers on evidence-based suicide prevention strategies. Physician education, pharmacological and psychotherapy treatments, school-based suicide prevention programmes, and means of suicide restriction are found to be effective in preventing suicidal behaviours. Suicide prevention strategies that require further research on efficacy are identified, along with directions for future research. Secondly, several papers are analysed providing evidence that talking about suicide does not cause iatrogenic effects. Suicide research and prevention should not be hindered due to unsubstantiated concerns. Lastly, a paper discussing the genetics of suicidal behaviour provides an understanding of the diathesis of suicide. These landmark papers highlight the importance of suicide prevention and inform future research.

scholarly journals Strengths-Based Assessment for Suicide Prevention: Reasons for Life as a Protective Factor From Yup’ik Alaska Native Youth Suicide

Assessment ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 107319111987578 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Allen ◽  
Stacy M. Rasmus ◽  
Carlotta Ching Ting Fok ◽  
Billy Charles ◽  
Joseph Trimble ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Native Youth

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and within the Alaska Native youth subpopulation, the leading cause of death. In response to this public health crisis, American Indian and Alaska Native communities have created strategies to protect their young people by building resilience using localized Indigenous well-being frameworks and cultural strengths. These approaches to suicide prevention emphasize promotion of protective factors over risk reduction. A measure of culturally based protective factors from suicide risk has potential to assess outcomes from these strengths-based, culturally grounded suicide prevention efforts, and can potentially address several substantive concerns regarding direct assessment of suicide risk. We report on the Reasons for Life (RFL) scale, a measure of protective factors from suicide, testing psychometric properties including internal structure with 302 rural Alaska Native Yup’ik youth. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed the RFL is best described through three distinct first-order factors organized under one higher second-order factor. Item response theory analyses identified 11 satisfactorily functioning items. The RFL correlates with other measures of more general protective factors. Implications of these findings are described, including generalizability to other American Indian and Alaska Native, other Indigenous, and other culturally distinct suicide disparities groups.

scholarly journals A Mobile Health Approach for Improving Outcomes in Suicide Prevention (SafePlan)

10.2196/17481 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. e17481
Author(s):  
Conor O'Grady ◽  
Ruth Melia ◽  
John Bogue ◽  
Mary O'Sullivan ◽  
Karen Young ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Dialectical Behavior Therapy ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Suicidal Thoughts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Target User

Background Suicide is a prominent cause of death worldwide, particularly among young people. It was the second leading cause of death among those aged 15-29 years globally in 2016. Treatment for patients with suicidal thoughts or behaviors often includes face-to-face psychological therapy with a mental health professional. These forms of interventions may involve maintaining and updating paper-based reports or worksheets in between sessions. Mobile technology can offer a way to support the implementation of evidence-based psychological techniques and the acquisition of protective coping skills. Objective This study aims to develop a mobile app to facilitate service users’ access to mental health support and safety planning. This process involved eliciting expert input from clinicians who are actively engaged in the provision of mental health care. Methods A survey was distributed to targeted health care professionals to determine what features should be prioritized in a new mobile app relating to suicide prevention. On the basis of the survey results, a clinical design group, comprising 6 members with experience in fields such as mobile health (mHealth), clinical psychology, and suicide prevention, was established. This group was supplemented with further input from additional clinicians who provided feedback over three focus group sessions. The sessions were centered on refining existing app components and evaluating new feature requests. This process was iterated through regular feedback until agreement was reached on the overall app design and functionality. Results A fully functional mobile app, known as the SafePlan app, was developed and tested with the input of clinicians through an iterative design process. The app’s core function is to provide an interactive safety plan to support users with suicidal thoughts or behaviors as an adjunct to face-to-face therapy. A diary component that facilitates the generalization of skills learned through dialectical behavior therapy was also implemented. Usability testing was carried out on the final prototype by students from a local secondary school, who are representative of the target user population in both age and technology experience. The students were asked to complete a system usability survey (SUS) at the end of this session. The mean overall SUS rating was 71.85 (SD 1.38). Conclusions The participatory process involving key stakeholders (clinicians, psychologists, and information technology specialists) has resulted in the creation of an mHealth intervention technology that has the potential to increase accessibility to this type of mental health service for the target population. The app has gone through the initial testing phase, and the relevant recommendations have been implemented, and it is now ready for trialing with both clinicians and their patients.

Suicide Prevention, Recurrent Affective Disorder and Lithium

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (563) ◽  
pp. 391-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Barraclough
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Lithium Carbonate ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
High Suicide Rate

Affective disorder is a serious and disabling illness which has a high suicide rate. Suicide is estimated as the eventual cause of death in 15 per cent of those given this diagnosis (4). Lithium carbonate has been convincingly shown to be an effective prophylactic against further attacks of depression (1, 3). Because suicide is such a common end in those with depressive illness, and per contra depressive illness is found in at least half of those dying by suicide (5, 2), the suicide rate may well go down once lithium is in general use. The reduction will depend on how many cases of suicide are recurrent depressives who might respond to lithium.

Saving Our Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 255-274
Author(s):  
Laura L. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Ethical Obligation ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Function

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth in the US. School counselors are in a pivotal position to identify and intervene with children and adolescents struggling with suicide. School counselors have a legal and ethical obligation to incorporate suicide prevention efforts into their schools. This chapter focuses on current research, including evidence-based practices, as an important aspect of suicide prevention work. This chapter provides vital information related to prevention and intervention activities school counselors can utilize to help prevent suicide. Information related to the formation and function of crisis response teams as well as postvention is also included.

The influence of the training of coping skills for stress on self-control and intensity of depression among adolescents with suicide risk

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Budi Anna Keliat ◽  
Tinneke Aneke Tololiu ◽  
Novy Helena Catharina Daulima ◽  
Erna Erawati
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Program ◽  
Quasi Experimental

<p><strong>Background:</strong> Suicide was the second leading cause of death among 15–29 year-olds globally in 2012. While the key elements in developing a national suicide prevention strategy not only the health sector but also education so far the training of coping skills for stress was not being a part of health school program to prevent suicide.</p><p><strong>Objective:</strong> This study conducted to explore the training of coping skills for stress on self-control and intensity of depression among adolescents with suicide risk.</p><p><strong>Method:</strong> This research design using a quasi-experimental pre-posttest with control group. The sample consisted of each 40 adolescents in the intervention group and in the control group.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> We found that the adolescent’s self-control and the intensity of depression was improved significantly in the intervention group.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The training of coping skills for stress appears to be effective in increasing self-control and decreasing intensity of depression. We recommended that the training of coping skills for stress for adolescents should become a health school program in suicide prevention.</p>

scholarly journals A Mobile Health Approach for Improving Outcomes in Suicide Prevention (SafePlan) (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor O'Grady ◽  
Ruth Melia ◽  
John Bogue ◽  
Mary O'Sullivan ◽  
Karen Young ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Dialectical Behavior Therapy ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Suicidal Thoughts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Target User

BACKGROUND Suicide is a prominent cause of death worldwide, particularly among young people. It was the second leading cause of death among those aged 15-29 years globally in 2016. Treatment for patients with suicidal thoughts or behaviors often includes face-to-face psychological therapy with a mental health professional. These forms of interventions may involve maintaining and updating paper-based reports or worksheets in between sessions. Mobile technology can offer a way to support the implementation of evidence-based psychological techniques and the acquisition of protective coping skills. OBJECTIVE This study aims to develop a mobile app to facilitate service users’ access to mental health support and safety planning. This process involved eliciting expert input from clinicians who are actively engaged in the provision of mental health care. METHODS A survey was distributed to targeted health care professionals to determine what features should be prioritized in a new mobile app relating to suicide prevention. On the basis of the survey results, a clinical design group, comprising 6 members with experience in fields such as mobile health (mHealth), clinical psychology, and suicide prevention, was established. This group was supplemented with further input from additional clinicians who provided feedback over three focus group sessions. The sessions were centered on refining existing app components and evaluating new feature requests. This process was iterated through regular feedback until agreement was reached on the overall app design and functionality. RESULTS A fully functional mobile app, known as the SafePlan app, was developed and tested with the input of clinicians through an iterative design process. The app’s core function is to provide an interactive safety plan to support users with suicidal thoughts or behaviors as an adjunct to face-to-face therapy. A diary component that facilitates the generalization of skills learned through dialectical behavior therapy was also implemented. Usability testing was carried out on the final prototype by students from a local secondary school, who are representative of the target user population in both age and technology experience. The students were asked to complete a system usability survey (SUS) at the end of this session. The mean overall SUS rating was 71.85 (SD 1.38). CONCLUSIONS The participatory process involving key stakeholders (clinicians, psychologists, and information technology specialists) has resulted in the creation of an mHealth intervention technology that has the potential to increase accessibility to this type of mental health service for the target population. The app has gone through the initial testing phase, and the relevant recommendations have been implemented, and it is now ready for trialing with both clinicians and their patients.

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