Do Brief Preventive Interventions for Patients at Suicide Risk Work?
Year: 2020
Type: editorial
Abstract: Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United\nStates and the 2nd leading cause among youth and young adults, aged\n10–34 years. There has been an alarmingly increased trend in suicide\nrates in the US over the past decades from 10.5 to 14.0 per 100,000 or a 33%\nincrease between 1999 and 20171. Studies show that 91.7% of people who die by suicide had a\nhealth care contact with an emergency room visit, primary care, or outpatient\nspecialty setting within a year prior to suicide, 54% within 30 days, and 29.6%\nwithin one week prior to suicide2. Thus, the need for effective brief interventions that could\nbe easily applied by a range of clinicians at each one of these settings to\nreduce risk for suicide is now more important than ever. We thank Doupnik and\ncolleagues3 for their\nimportant contribution conducting a meta-analysis on studies addressing brief\npreventive interventions for acute suicide risk. The results provide valuable\ninformation for clinicians, researchers, and health policy makers about whether\nthese interventions work in order to determine if these strategies should be\nimplemented to reduce the public health burden of suicidal behavior.
Source: JAMA Psychiatry
Authors: Nadine M. Melhem, David Brent
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3035840205