Suicide Prevention - An evidence review 2015

Author(s):

Lucy Dillon, Ciara Guiney, Louise Farragher, Anne McCarthy, Jean Long

Publication date:

23 June 2015

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Abstract:

The Evidence Centre of the Health Research Board (HRB) was commissioned by the National Office for Suicide Prevention to carry out a review of the evidence base for suicide prevention. In this report, we present our findings from a review of reviews, seeking to answer two research questions:

1. Which suicide prevention interventions have been evaluated in the published literature?

2. For which prevention interventions is there good-quality evidence that they reduce suicidal behaviours (measured by a decrease in completed suicides, suicide attempts, (deliberate) self-harm or suicidal ideation)?

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Health Research Board

Place of publication:

Dublin

HRB Series:

Not applicable

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