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Best Practice Elements of Multilevel Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Review of Systematic Reviews

Year: 2011
Type: review
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Evidence-based best practices for incorporation into an optimal multilevel intervention for suicide prevention should be identifiable in the literature. AIMS: To identify effective interventions for the prevention of suicidal behavior. METHODS: Review of systematic reviews found in the Pubmed, Cochrane, and DARE databases. Steps include risk-of-bias assessment, data extraction, summarization of best practices, and identification of synergistic potentials of such practices in multilevel approaches. RESULTS: Six relevant systematic reviews were found. Best practices identified as effective were as follows: training general practitioners (GPs) to recognize and treat depression and suicidality, improving accessibility of care for at-risk people, and restricting access to means of suicide. Although no outcomes were reported for multilevel interventions or for synergistic effects of multiple interventions applied together, indirect support was found for possible synergies in particular combinations of interventions within multilevel strategies. CONCLUSIONS: A number of evidence-based best practices for the prevention of suicide and suicide attempts were identified. Research is needed on the nature and extent of potential synergistic effects of various preventive activities within multilevel interventions.
Source: Crisis
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000109
Authors: Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis, Marco Sarchiapone, Vita Postuvan, Daniëlle Volker, Saska Roskar, Alenka Tančič Grum, Vladimir Carli, David McDaid, Rory O’Connor, Margaret Maxwell, Angela Ibelshäuser, Chantal Van Audenhove, Gert Scheerder, Merike Sisask, Ricardo Gusmão, Ulrich Hegerl
Institutions: Tilburg University, GGz Breburg, Trimbos Institute, University of Molise, University of Primorska, National Institute of Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Stirling, UCLouvain, KU Leuven, Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute, University of Lisbon, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Leipzig University
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2151118265
FWCI: 2.434
Cites: 53
Cited by: 305
Related to: 8