ArticleBMC psychiatry2017
Effect of telephone follow-up on repeated suicide attempt in patients discharged from an emergency psychiatry department: a controlled study.
Article in BMC psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03444935 (Phone Call Follow-up After Crisis Centre Presentation With Suicidal Ideation and Behaviours.), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Phone Call Follow-up After Crisis Centre Presentation With Suicidal Ideation and Behaviours.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- Interventions to improve discharge from acute adult mental health inpatient care to the community: systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC health services research · 2019Pooled it
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- Suicide prevention in primary health care among socially vulnerable populations: a narrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Improved Mental Health Support for Patients With Self-Harm Injuries in the Emergency Department: Design and Development of a Future Patient Care Pathway.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Adapting the Zero Suicide framework to the adult emergency department setting: Strategies for nurse leaders.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2024Article
- Behavioural mental health interventions delivered in the emergency department for suicide, overdose and psychosis: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- The Impact of Allied Health Brief Therapy Clinic Interventions in Consumers in Suicidal Crisis.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- Family involvement, patient safety and suicide prevention in mental healthcare: ethnographic study.BJPsych open · 2023Article
- Telephone-Delivered Interventions for Suicide Prevention in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Legal Considerations in Emergency Psychiatry.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023Review
- Associating factors of suicide and repetition following self-harm: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Article
- Improving mental health care transitions through information capture during admission to inpatient mental health services: a quality improvement study.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Suicide reattempt in a population-wide brief contact intervention to prevent suicide attempts: The VigilanS program, France.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Article
- What does safety in mental healthcare transitions mean for service users and other stakeholder groups: An open-ended questionnaire study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
- Cultural adaptation of the mental health first aid guidelines for assisting a person at risk of suicide to China: a Delphi expert consensus study.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundAttempted suicide is a major public health problem, and the efficacies of current postvention protocols vary. We evaluated the effectiveness of telephone follow-up of patients referred to an emergency psychiatric unit for attempted suicide on any further attempt/s over the following year.
methodIn a single-center, controlled study with intent to treat, we evaluated the efficacy of a protocol of telephone follow-up of 436 patients at 8, 30, and 60 days after they were treated for attempted suicide. As controls for comparison, we evaluated patients with similar social and demographic characteristics referred to our emergency psychiatric unit in the year prior to the study who did not receive telephone follow-up after their initial hospitalization. Data were analyzed using logistic regression.
resultsVery early telephone follow-up of our patients effectively reduced recidivism and seemed to be the only protective factor against repeated suicide attempt.
conclusionsImplementing a protocol of early telephone follow-up after attempted suicide could help prevent repeated attempt/s. More controlled studies are needed to assess optimal techniques to prevent such repetition.
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