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Alexandra Fleischmann
[1]
;
José M Bertolote
[2]
;
Danuta Wasserman
[3]
;
Diego De Leo
[4]
;
Jafar Bolhari
[5]
;
Neury J Botega
[6]
;
Damani De Silva
[7]
;
Michael Phillips
[8]
;
Lakshmi Vijayakumar
[9]
;
Airi Värnik
[10]
;
Lourens Schlebusch
[11]
;
Huong Tran Thi Thanh
[12]
Total Authors: 12
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| Affiliation: Show less - | [1] World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse - Suíça
[2] World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse - Suíça
[3] Karolinska Institute. Department of Public Health Sciences - Suécia
[4] Griffith University. Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention - Austrália
[5] Mental Health Research Centre. Tehran Psychiatric Institute
[6] UNICAMP. FCM. Department of Psychiatry - Brasil
[7] University of Colombo. Faculty of Medicine. Department of Psychological Medicine
[8] Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital. Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center - China
[9] Department of Psychiatry - Índia
[10] Estonian Centre of Behavioural and Health Sciences. Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute - Estônia
[11] University of KwaZulu-Natal. Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine. School of Family and Public Health Medicine - África do Sul
[12] Hanoi Medical University - Vietnã
Total Affiliations: 12
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; v. 86, n. 9, p. 703-709, 2008-09-00. |
| Abstract | |
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether brief intervention and contact is effective in reducing subsequent suicide mortality among suicide attempters in low and middle-income countries. METHODS: Suicide attempters (n = 1867) identified by medical staff in the emergency units of eight collaborating hospitals in five culturally different sites (Campinas, Brazil; Chennai, India; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Karaj, Islamic Republic of Iran; and Yuncheng, China) participated, from January 2002 to October 2005, in a randomized controlled trial to receive either treatment as usual, or treatment as usual plus brief intervention and contact (BIC), which included patient education and follow-up. Overall, 91% completed the study. The primary study outcome measurement was death from suicide at 18-month follow-up. FINDINGS: Significantly fewer deaths from suicide occurred in the BIC than in the treatment-as-usual group (0.2% versus 2.2%, respectively; χ2 = 13.83, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: This low-cost brief intervention may be an important part of suicide prevention programmes for underresourced low- and middle-income countries. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 02/08288-9 - Estudo multicêntrico de intervenção no comportamento suicida (SUPRE-MISS), da Organização Mundial da Saúde |
| Grantee: | Neury José Botega |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |