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Taking care of suicidal patients with new technologies and reaching-out means in the post-discharge period

Suicide is a global public health problem with over one million people dying by suicide each year worldwide. Research efforts have focused on developing and testing novel suicide prevention strategies employing recent technological advances. In order to provide a review regarding the role of new tec...

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Autores principales: Falcone, Giulia, Nardella, Adele, Lamis, Dorian A, Erbuto, Denise, Girardi, Paolo, Pompili, Maurizio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29043154
http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v7.i3.163
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author Falcone, Giulia
Nardella, Adele
Lamis, Dorian A
Erbuto, Denise
Girardi, Paolo
Pompili, Maurizio
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description Suicide is a global public health problem with over one million people dying by suicide each year worldwide. Research efforts have focused on developing and testing novel suicide prevention strategies employing recent technological advances. In order to provide a review regarding the role of new technologies (e.g., postcards/letters, text messages, crisis cards, telephone contacts, online interventions) in suicide prevention, we searched PubMed, ScienceDirect, ResearchGate, and Crisis to identify all papers in English from 1977 to 2016. Our results indicated that brief contact interventions show promise in reducing the number of episodes of repeated self-harm and/or suicide attempts following discharge from the Emergency Department or psychiatric units. Innovative methods of contact (e.g., text messages) are easily implemented by clinicians and received by patients in the period of post discharge and have been shown to be beneficial. However, more research employing randomized clinical trials investigating the potential benefits of these novel suicide prevention methods is warranted. Future researchers should continue improving and testing new technologies in the prevention of suicide.
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spelling pubmed-56326012017-10-17 Taking care of suicidal patients with new technologies and reaching-out means in the post-discharge period Falcone, Giulia Nardella, Adele Lamis, Dorian A Erbuto, Denise Girardi, Paolo Pompili, Maurizio World J Psychiatry Minireviews Suicide is a global public health problem with over one million people dying by suicide each year worldwide. Research efforts have focused on developing and testing novel suicide prevention strategies employing recent technological advances. In order to provide a review regarding the role of new technologies (e.g., postcards/letters, text messages, crisis cards, telephone contacts, online interventions) in suicide prevention, we searched PubMed, ScienceDirect, ResearchGate, and Crisis to identify all papers in English from 1977 to 2016. Our results indicated that brief contact interventions show promise in reducing the number of episodes of repeated self-harm and/or suicide attempts following discharge from the Emergency Department or psychiatric units. Innovative methods of contact (e.g., text messages) are easily implemented by clinicians and received by patients in the period of post discharge and have been shown to be beneficial. However, more research employing randomized clinical trials investigating the potential benefits of these novel suicide prevention methods is warranted. Future researchers should continue improving and testing new technologies in the prevention of suicide. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5632601/ /pubmed/29043154 http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v7.i3.163 Text en ©The Author(s) 2017. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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