ArticlePloS one2017
Comparing Different Suicide Prevention Measures at Bridges and Buildings: Lessons We Have Learned from a National Survey in Switzerland.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of suicide means restriction: an overview of systematic reviews.BMJ mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Means restriction for the prevention of suicide by jumping.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of surveillance technology for the prevention of suicides in public spaces: a systematic review.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Toward integrating clinical and non-clinical associates of suicidality to inform potential intervention points among youth in Nairobi metropolitan, Kenya.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Identification and Analysis of Critical Suicide Sites and Factors in Castilla-La Mancha (2020-2024): Forensic and Healthcare Collaboration for Prevention.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Suicide Prevention Measures at High-Risk Locations: A Goal-Directed Motivation Perspective.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of partial restriction of access to means in jumping suicide: lessons from four bridges in three countries.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2024Article
- High-Risk Suicide Locations in Australia.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of physical barriers to prevent suicide by jumping from high-risk bridges: From an integrative review to a northern Italian province's paradigm.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Review
- The effectiveness of installing trackside fencing in preventing railway suicides: a pre-post study design in Victoria, Australia.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2023Article
- A Spatial Analysis of Suicide Displacement at a High-Risk Cliff-Based Location Following Installation of a Means Restriction Initiative.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Structural intervention at one bridge decreases the overall jumping suicide rate in Victoria, Australia.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2023Article
- Facilitators and barriers to implementation of suicide prevention interventions: Scoping review.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Preventing railway suicides through level crossing removal: a multiple-arm pre-post study design in Victoria, Australia.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- Cost-effectiveness of Installing Barriers at Bridge and Cliff Sites for Suicide Prevention in Australia.JAMA network open · 2022Article
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Abstract
The goal of the study was to compare the effectiveness of different suicide prevention measures implemented on bridges and other high structures in Switzerland. A national survey identified all jumping hotspots that have been secured in Switzerland; of the 15 that could be included in this study, 11 were secured by vertical barriers and 4 were secured by low-hanging horizontal safety nets. The study made an overall and individual pre-post analysis by using Mantel-Haenszel Tests, regression methods and calculating rate ratios. Barriers and safety nets were both effective, with mean suicide reduction of 68.7% (barriers) and 77.1% (safety nets), respectively. Measures that do not secure the whole hotspot and still allow jumps of 15 meters or more were less effective. Further, the analyses revealed that barriers of at least 2.3 m in height and safety-nets fixed significantly below pedestrian level deterred suicidal jumps. Secured bridgeheads and inbound angle barriers seemed to enhance the effectiveness of the measure. Findings can help to plan and improve the effectiveness of future suicide prevention measures on high structures.
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