Trial reportPsychological medicine2015
Cognitive-behavioural suicide prevention for male prisoners: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Psychological medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05195554 (Effectiveness of a Psycho-educational Intervention for People With Suicidal Conduct in the Prison Environment. N'VIU Project), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of a Psycho-educational Intervention for People With Suicidal Conduct in the Prison Environment. N'VIU Project: a Randomized Control Trial
Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness and gender-tailoring of suicide prevention interventions for men: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
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- The Effectiveness of Self-Esteem-Related Interventions in Reducing Suicidal Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts in prisoners: a systematic meta-analytic review.Psychological medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Acceptability of a novel suicide prevention psychological therapy for people who experience non-affective psychosis.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2023Trial
- Improving the quality of prison research: A qualitative study of ex-offender service user involvement in prison suicide prevention research.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2018Trial
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- A Qualitative Co-Production Study of a Solutions-Focused Approach to Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Engagement of Male Suicidal Prisoners in Psychological Therapy for Suicide Prevention.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of a psychoeducational intervention for people with suicidal behavior in the prison environment. N'VIU project: a randomized control trial.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Suicide prevention following conviction within the criminal justice system: a review of good practice using a social-ecological framework.BMC global and public health · 2025Review
- Association between nature exposure and suicidal tendency among Chinese inmates: a moderated mediation model.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Collecting resource use data for economic evaluation in a prison setting with a focus on self-harm: the Prison Data Inventory (Self-Harm) (PDI (SH)).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychological therapy for the prevention of suicide in prison: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- How individuals with psychosis develop and maintain resilience to suicidal experiences through psychological therapy: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Reflections on working as and supervising trial therapists on trials of psychosocial interventions.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Developing a consensus of recovery from suicidal ideations and behaviours: A Delphi study with experts by experience.PloS one · 2023Article
- A cognitive-behavioral suicide prevention treatment for adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in community mental health: Preliminary findings of an open pilot study.Social work in mental health · 2023Article
- Preventing suicidal and self-Injurious behavior in correctional facilities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Review
- Psychosocial Interventions for Prisoners with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrisoners have an exceptional risk of suicide. Cognitive-behavioural therapy for suicidal behaviour has been shown to offer considerable potential, but has yet to be formally evaluated within prisons. This study investigated the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a novel, manualized cognitive-behavioural suicide prevention (CBSP) therapy for suicidal male prisoners.
methodA pilot randomized controlled trial of CBSP in addition to treatment as usual (CBSP; n = 31) compared with treatment as usual (TAU; n = 31) alone was conducted in a male prison in England. The primary outcome was self-injurious behaviour occurring within the past 6 months. Secondary outcomes were dimensions of suicidal ideation, psychiatric symptomatology, personality dysfunction and psychological determinants of suicide, including depression and hopelessness. The trial was prospectively registered (number ISRCTN59909209).
resultsRelative to TAU, participants receiving CBSP therapy achieved a significantly greater reduction in suicidal behaviours with a moderate treatment effect [Cohen's d = -0.72, 95% confidence interval -1.71 to 0.09; baseline mean TAU: 1.39 (S.D. = 3.28) v. CBSP: 1.06 (S.D. = 2.10), 6 months mean TAU: 1.48 (S.D. = 3.23) v. CBSP: 0.58 (S.D. = 1.52)]. Significant improvements were achieved on measures of psychiatric symptomatology and personality dysfunction. Improvements on psychological determinants of suicide were non-significant. More than half of the participants in the CBSP group achieved a clinically significant recovery by the end of therapy, compared with a quarter of the TAU group.
conclusionsThe delivery and evaluation of CBSP therapy within a prison is feasible. CBSP therapy offers significant promise in the prevention of prison suicide and an adequately powered randomized controlled trial is warranted.
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