ArticleMental illness2015
Testing Brief Intervention and Phone Contact among Subjects with Suicidal Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Trial in French Polynesia in the Frames of the World Health Organization/Suicide Trends in At-Risk Territories Study.
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- Acute-Phase Interventions After Self-Harm for Preventing Suicide and Recurrence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2026Pooled it
- Synchronous remote-based interventions for suicidal behaviour prevention: a systematic review and meta-analyses of clinical trials.BMJ open · 2025Pooled 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
- Psychoeducation for Suicidal Behaviors in Inpatient Settings: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Suicide risk and mental health in the general population of French Polynesia.The Journal of international medical research · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of distance-based suicide interventions: multi-level meta-analysis and systematic review.BJPsych open · 2022Review
- Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2022Article
- Suicide and suicide attempts in the Pacific Islands: A Systematic Literature Review.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2021Review
- Suicide in French Polynesia: a retrospective analysis based on medicolegal documents and interview with family.The Journal of international medical research · 2021Article
- Supportive effect of body contact care with ylang ylang aromatherapy and mobile intervention team for suicide prevention: A pilot study.The Journal of international medical research · 2020Article
- A Pilot Study of an Intervention to Prevent Suicide After Psychiatric Hospitalization.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2019Article
- Taking care of suicidal patients with new technologies and reaching-out means in the post-discharge period.World journal of psychiatry · 2017Review
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Abstract
The World Health Organization Suicide trends in at-risk territories study is a multi-site regional research program operating first in French Polynesia and countries of the Western Pacific, then extended to the world. The aims of the study were to establish a monitoring system for suicidal behaviors and to conduct a randomised control trial intervention for non-fatal suicidal behaviors. The latter part is the purpose of the present article. Over the period 2008-2010, 515 patients were admitted at the Emergency Department of the Centre Hospitalier de Polynésie Française for suicidal behavior. Those then hospitalized in the Psychiatry Emergency Unit were asked to be involved in the study and randomly allocated to either Treatment As Usual (TAU) or TAU plus Brief Intervention and Contact (BIC), which provides a psycho-education session and a follow-up of 9 phone contacts over an 18-months period. One hundred persons were assigned to TAU, while 100 participants were allocated to the BIC group. At the end of the follow-up there were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of number of presentations to the hospital for repeated suicidal behaviors. Although the study could not demonstrate the superiority of a treatment over the other, nevertheless - given its importance - the investigation captured public attention and was able to contribute to the awareness of the need of suicide prevention in French Polynesia. The BIC model of intervention seemed to particularly suit the geographical and health care context of the country.
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