Perceived impact of COVID-19 among callers to the national suicide prevention lifeline.
Conclusion: Despite the subjective burden of COVID-19-related stress on suicidal Lifeline callers, this was not associated with new suicidality or heightened suicide risk. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - September 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A volunteer-run, face-to-face, early intervention service for reducing suicidality: A service evaluation of the listening place.
Conclusions: An empathetic, nonjudgmental, listening service for people who are feeling suicidal was well received by users, who experienced a reduction in suicidality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - September 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The association between problematic use of alcohol and drugs and repeat self-harm and suicidal ideation: Insights from a population-based administrative health data set.
Conclusion: The findings underscore the importance of drug health intervention as a key component of self-harm prevention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - September 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Population- and community-based interventions to prevent suicide: A systematic review.
Conclusions: Community-based interventions that may reduce suicide deaths include reducing access to lethal means, implementing organizational policies in workplace settings, screening for depression, and the multistrategy European Alliance Against Depression Program. Evidence was unclear, inconsistent, or lacking regarding the impact of many other single- or multistrategy interventions on suicide deaths. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - September 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“I can’t see an end in sight.” how the COVID-19 pandemic may influence suicide risk: A qualitative study.
Conclusion: Our findings revealed the potential process underlying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide risk and have implications for prevention and intervention strategies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Evaluation of a system for real-time surveillance of suicide in England.
Conclusion: The RTSS system has led to better support for suicidal people and a responsive, timely, and effective service for those bereaved by suicide, all of which are likely to lead to enhanced well-being and community resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Widening the cracks: Unintended harms of excluding individuals at risk of suicide from broader mental health research.
Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Vol 43(6), 2022, 455-459; doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000872Although excluding individuals at risk of suicide in broader mental health research may feel like a necessary compromise for researchers, it is important to consider the ethical implications of these decisions for the excluded individuals themselves, as well as the data quality threats it may pose to study results. This editorial discusses these issues in light of the recent literature, and focuses on the specific harms to these individuals, as well as the potential for biases in recruited samples; it c...
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - August 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Open science in suicide research is open for business.
Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Vol 43(5), 2022, 355-360; doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000859In this editorial, the authors use examples from their and others’ work to demonstrate the opportunities for future-proofing research by implementing open science practices, and we discuss some of the challenges and their potential solutions. The authors cover implementing open science practices in new, ongoing, and concluded studies, and discuss practices in order of being “low” to “high” threshold to implement (based on Kathawalla et al., 2021). Space constraints preclude them from covering ...
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - August 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Open science in suicide research is open for business.
In this editorial, the authors use examples from their and others’ work to demonstrate the opportunities for future-proofing research by implementing open science practices, and we discuss some of the challenges and their potential solutions. The authors cover implementing open science practices in new, ongoing, and concluded studies, and discuss practices in order of being “low” to “high” threshold to implement (based on Kathawalla et al., 2021). Space constraints preclude them from covering all open science practices and there are undoubtedly more researchers using open science practices in suicide research tha...
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - August 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Social reactions after disclosing suicide loss among women: A qualitative study.
Conclusion: Interventions that help suicide loss survivors in finding supportive confidants, combined with public interventions to decrease public suicide stigma and improve the public’s readiness to provide helpful support to suicide loss survivors, could improve grieving outcomes among this group. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - July 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Systematic review of research and interventions with frequent callers to suicide prevention helplines and crisis centers”: Correction to Mishara et al. (2022).
Conclusion: Rather than focusing on reducing call frequency, we should empirically evaluate the benefits of interventions for frequent callers with different calling patterns, characteristics, and reasons for calling. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - July 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Munich alliance against depression: Effects of a community-based four-level intervention program on suicide rates.
Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Vol 44(4), 2023, 300-308; doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000870Background: A four-level community-based intervention aiming simultaneously to improve the care for depression and to prevent suicidal behavior has been implemented in the German city Munich. Aims: Changes in suicide rates in Munich during 2009–2014 were analyzed with respect to a 10-year baseline. The same was true for a control region (Cologne) and Germany minus Munich. Method: The interventions included training of primary care providers, a public awareness campaign, training of community facilitat...
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - July 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The impact of COVID-19 on the suicide prevention helpline in the Netherlands.
Conclusion: These coronavirus-related problems made help-seekers vulnerable to suicidal thoughts and a reduced desire to live. That many suffered from loneliness is concerning as this contributes to the risk of suicidal ideation. The distress among help-seekers due to the sudden loss of mental health care underscores the importance of maintaining contact with those in care and lowering the threshold for help. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - June 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Differences in suicide-related Twitter content according to user influence.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated more problematic content vis-à-vis safe suicide messaging in tweets by high-influence users and a paucity of protective content across all users. These results highlight the need for further research and potential intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - June 9, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research