ReviewDialogues in clinical neuroscience2018
The role of prediction in suicide prevention.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Meta-analysis of suicide rates in the first week and the first month after psychiatric hospitalisation.BMJ open · 2019Pooled it
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- Judgments of predictability, preventability and causation of mental health homicides in England 2010 - 2023.Medicine, science, and the law · 2026Article
- Time to suicide after psychiatric inpatient discharge: a nationwide Swedish survival analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Suicidal ideation as a risk factor for suicide: Insights from hypertension screening.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- The positioning of women nurses as 'risky' in United Kingdom suicide prevention policy documents: a critical policy analysis.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- Clinical symptoms and risk factors in people with mental disorders: findings from the interRAI emergency screener for psychiatry in Brazil.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Suicide-preventive compulsory admission is not a proportionate measure - time for clinicians to recognise the associated risks.Monash bioethics review · 2025Article
- Suicide Risk Assessments Understood as Medical Rituals: Functions and Implications from Societal and Medico-Ethical Perspectives.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2025Article
- Lived experiences of adolescents attempted suicide: a phenomenological study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Rethinking suicide prevention: from prediction to understanding.BJPsych international · 2025Review
- Artificial Intelligence for Management of Major Depression: Initial Design, Progress, and Research Plans.Alpha psychiatry · 2025Article
- Suicide Ideation Severity and Oculomotor Avoidance of Suicide-Related Stimuli.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- The Suicide Status Form-4 (SSF-IV) as a potentially therapeutic suicide risk assessment tool.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- Machine Learning-Based Suicide Risk Prediction Model for Suicidal Trajectory on Social Media Following Suicidal Mentions: Independent Algorithm Validation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- The burden of suicide across different altitudes: 11-year geodemographic analysis conducted in 221 cantons in Ecuador ranging from 0 to 4300 m of elevation.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Emerging Themes and Research Frontiers in Suicide Prediction: A Scientometric Analysis.Cureus · 2024Review
- Association between cytokines and suicidality in patients with psychosis: A multicentre longitudinal analysis.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- The Positive and Negative Suicidal Ideation Inventory among Portuguese Adolescents: Factor Structure and Gender Invariance.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
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Abstract
It is widely believed that suicide prevention involves the consideration of risk and protective factors and related interventions. Preventative interventions can be classified as "universal" (targeting whole populations), "selective" (targeting higher-risk groups), and "indicated" (protecting individuals). This review explores the range of preventative measures that might be used commensurately with different types of suicide prediction. The author concludes that the best prospects for suicide prevention lie in universal prevention strategies. While risk assessments do generate some information about future suicide, suicide risk categorization results in an unacceptably high false positive rate, misses many fatalities, and therefore, is unable to usefully guide prevention strategies. The assessment of suicidal patients should focus on contemporaneous factors and the needs of the patient, rather than probabilistic notions of suicide risk.
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