Is the suicide prevention hotline worth it?
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| Because of the reach and automated nature of this and similar programs, we recommend including a referral to a suicide prevention hotline for all smoking cessation mHealth interventions. | |
| This is the first intervention study to promote psychiatric patients' help-seeking using text messaging, and although it was not a randomized controlled trial, this intervention has practical value and may lead to the prevention of suicide. | |
16 Citations | There is no evidence that these and similar, primarily telephone, services lower the suicide rate; they seem to be more effective as crisis centres than as suicide prevention centres. |
58 Citations | There is compelling evidence that adequate prevention and awareness can reduce suicide rates. |
| It also concludes that this substantial evidence base makes the compelling case that all suicide prevention programs need to include postvention services as a direct form of suicide prevention with a population of people known to be at heightened risk for suicide themselves: suicide loss survivors. | |
| Suicide prevention specialists and prevention planners may benefit from study findings. | |
| A key element to suicide prevention is intervention by close others. | |
| These findings could serve as a base for development of suicide-prevention-focused programmes and optimal use of telephone hotlines for assessment and timely intervention of persons in great crisis. | |
41 Citations | Far from being pessimistic about research into suicide prevention, the present review suggests that by introducing a number of these interventions we can be optimistic that the unacceptable rate of suicide world wide can be reduced. |
| Unguided Internet interventions for suicide prevention, depression and smoking cessation demonstrated cost-effectiveness compared to TAU or attention control. | |
24 Citations | This program is the first known one in which a dedicated suicide prevention helpline has been installed at a site of known suicides and linked with a mental health service. |
81 Citations | Further research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of stand-alone mHealth technology–based interventions in suicide prevention. |
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