The persistent shadow of suicide ideation and attempts in a high-risk group of psychiatric patients: A focus for intervention

Public health approaches to reducing the suicide rate include using demographic and psychiatric risk factor data to classify groups at elevated risk for suicide and to identify proximal warning signs of increased danger. Treatment for individuals in an acute suicide crisis generally consists of providing access to crisis intervention and stabilization, and perhaps short-term hospitalization followed by a referral to outpatient psychiatric follow-up. Once the crisis passes, those who have made a suicide attempt are at elevated risk for repeated attempts or completed suicide [1 –3].

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - May 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jane G. Tillman, A. Jill Clemence, Robyn Cree, Katie C. Lewis, Jennifer L. Stevens, David Reiss Source Type: research