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Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: ‘Suicide hotspots’ include tall structures (for example, bridges and cliffs), railway tracks, and isolated locations (for example, rural car parks) which offer direct means for suicide or seclusion that prevents intervention. METHODS: We searched Medline for studies that could inform the...
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-214 |
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author | Cox, Georgina R Owens, Christabel Robinson, Jo Nicholas, Angela Lockley, Anne Williamson, Michelle Cheung, Yee Tak Derek Pirkis, Jane |
author_facet | Cox, Georgina R Owens, Christabel Robinson, Jo Nicholas, Angela Lockley, Anne Williamson, Michelle Cheung, Yee Tak Derek Pirkis, Jane |
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description | BACKGROUND: ‘Suicide hotspots’ include tall structures (for example, bridges and cliffs), railway tracks, and isolated locations (for example, rural car parks) which offer direct means for suicide or seclusion that prevents intervention. METHODS: We searched Medline for studies that could inform the following question: ‘What interventions are available to reduce suicides at hotspots, and are they effective?’ RESULTS: There are four main approaches: (a) restricting access to means (through installation of physical barriers); (b) encouraging help-seeking (by placement of signs and telephones); (c) increasing the likelihood of intervention by a third party (through surveillance and staff training); and (d) encouraging responsible media reporting of suicide (through guidelines for journalists). There is relatively strong evidence that reducing access to means can avert suicides at hotspots without substitution effects. The evidence is weaker for the other approaches, although they show promise. CONCLUSIONS: More well-designed intervention studies are needed to strengthen this evidence base. |
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spelling | pubmed-36066062013-03-24 Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review Cox, Georgina R Owens, Christabel Robinson, Jo Nicholas, Angela Lockley, Anne Williamson, Michelle Cheung, Yee Tak Derek Pirkis, Jane BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: ‘Suicide hotspots’ include tall structures (for example, bridges and cliffs), railway tracks, and isolated locations (for example, rural car parks) which offer direct means for suicide or seclusion that prevents intervention. METHODS: We searched Medline for studies that could inform the following question: ‘What interventions are available to reduce suicides at hotspots, and are they effective?’ RESULTS: There are four main approaches: (a) restricting access to means (through installation of physical barriers); (b) encouraging help-seeking (by placement of signs and telephones); (c) increasing the likelihood of intervention by a third party (through surveillance and staff training); and (d) encouraging responsible media reporting of suicide (through guidelines for journalists). There is relatively strong evidence that reducing access to means can avert suicides at hotspots without substitution effects. The evidence is weaker for the other approaches, although they show promise. CONCLUSIONS: More well-designed intervention studies are needed to strengthen this evidence base. BioMed Central 2013-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3606606/ /pubmed/23496989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-214 Text en Copyright ©2013 Cox et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cox, Georgina R Owens, Christabel Robinson, Jo Nicholas, Angela Lockley, Anne Williamson, Michelle Cheung, Yee Tak Derek Pirkis, Jane Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review |
title | Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review |
title_full | Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review |
title_short | Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review |
title_sort | interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic review |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-214 |
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