Trial reportBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2006
Effect of telephone contact on further suicide attempts in patients discharged from an emergency department: randomised controlled study.
Trial report in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 5 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 79 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effectiveness of a "Case Management Algorithm" After a Suicide Attempt in Terms of Repetition of the Suicidal Behaviors and Medico-economic Impact
Caring Letters for Military Suicide Prevention: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Evaluation d'un Dispositif de Suivi téléphonique Sur la Qualité de Vie Dans Les Crises Psychogènes Non Epileptiques.
Divided Drug Delivery : a Way to Prevent Repeated Volutary Drug Intoxications.
Qualitative Assessment of the French Brief Contact Intervention "Stay in Contact" in Suicide Prevention
Who cites it
79 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Synchronous remote-based interventions for suicidal behaviour prevention: a systematic review and meta-analyses of clinical trials.BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- Prevention of Re-attempt Suicide Through Brief Contact Interventions: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Meta-regression of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2023Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in low-income and middle-income countries: systematic review and theory of change.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Suicide during Transition of Care: a Review of Targeted Interventions.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of brief psychological interventions for suicidal presentations: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
- Mechanisms of brief contact interventions in clinical populations: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2016Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Deliberate self-harm (and attempted suicide).BMJ clinical evidence · 2015Pooled it
- Deliberate self-harm (and attempted suicide).BMJ clinical evidence · 2008Pooled it
- Is there evidence for negative effects of antidepressants on suicidality in depressive patients? A systematic review.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2006Pooled it
- Impact of posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid psychiatric conditions on suicide reattempts.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Trial
- Caring Contacts to Reduce Psychiatric Morbidity Following Hospitalization During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2023Trial
- Direct Delivery of Kidney Transplant Education to Black and Low-Income Patients Receiving Dialysis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2019Trial
- Suicide Prevention in an Emergency Department Population: The ED-SAFE Study.JAMA psychiatry · 2017Trial
- Effect of Systematic Follow-Up by General Practitioners after Deliberate Self-Poisoning: A Randomised Controlled Trial.PloS one · 2015Trial
- SIAM (Suicide intervention assisted by messages): the development of a post-acute crisis text messaging outreach for suicide prevention.BMC psychiatry · 2014Trial
- ALGOS: the development of a randomized controlled trial testing a case management algorithm designed to reduce suicide risk among suicide attempters.BMC psychiatry · 2011Trial
- Secondary prevention of hazardous alcohol consumption in psychiatric out-patients: a randomised controlled study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2009Trial
19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the effects over one year of contacting patients by telephone one month or three months after being discharged from an emergency department for deliberate self poisoning compared with usual treatment.
designMulticentre, randomised controlled trial.
setting13 emergency departments in the north of France.
participants605 people discharged from an emergency department after attempted suicide by deliberate self poisoning.
interventionThe intervention consisted of contacting patients by telephone at one month or three months after discharge from an emergency department for attempted suicide to evaluate the success of recommended treatment or to adjust treatment. Control patients received treatment as usual, in most cases referral back to their general practitioner.
main outcome measuresThe primary outcome measures were proportion of participants who reattempted suicide, number of deaths by suicide, and losses to follow-up at 13 months' follow-up. Secondary outcome measures were types and number of contacts with health care.
resultsOn an intention to treat basis, the three groups did not differ significantly for further suicide attempts, deaths by suicide, or losses to follow-up: contact at one month (intervention 23% (34/147) v controls 30% (93/312), difference 7%, 95% confidence interval - 2% to 15%), three months (25% (36/146) v 30%, difference 5%, - 4% to 14%). Participants contacted at one month were less likely at follow-up to report having reattempted suicide (12% v 22% in control group, difference 10%, 2% to 18%).
conclusionContacting people by telephone one month after being discharged from an emergency department for deliberate self poisoning may help reduce the number of reattempted suicides over one year.
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