SynthesisEvidence-based mental health2022
Methods and efficacy of social support interventions in preventing suicide: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychosocial interventions for self-harm and suicide prevention in liaison psychiatry: an overview of systematic reviews.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Community-based mental health interventions for reducing youth suicidal thoughts and behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Personality Disorders and Suicide. A Systematic Review of Psychological Autopsy Studies.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Pooled it
- The Role of Social Support in Preventing Suicidal Ideations and Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of research in health sciences · 2024Pooled it
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- Temporal Dynamics of Internal vs External Entrapment in Suicidal Ideation in Psychotherapy Outpatients: Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Mental health and burnout among Swiss medical students living in contexts of deprivation: a longitudinal study.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Social support and epigenetic aging at the intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender: findings from NHANES 1999-2002.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Perceived disabling physical pain and suicidal ideation in aging people living with HIV cured of hepatitis C: A multi-center survey in France (ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH).HIV medicine · 2026Article
- A survey on social support during standardized training for pediatric residents in Southwest China: a preliminary study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Suicide prediction, prevention, and the blame culture: A narrative review based on trends in mortality rates.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Review
- Umbrella review of psychosocial and ward-based interventions to reduce self-harm and suicide risks in in-patient mental health settings.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- Quantifying the impact of a large-scale opioid agonist treatment program on suicide prevention in New South Wales, Australia: A data-modeling study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Social support and mental health among adolescents in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam: A latent class analysis using the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Investigating Direct and Moderating Effects of Social Connectedness and Perceived Social Support on Suicidal Ideation in Older Adults With Depression: A Prospective Study.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a predictive model for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among freshmen.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- A machine learning analysis of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt among U.S. youth and young adults from multilevel, longitudinal survey data.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Using Natural Language Processing to Inform Targeted Rural and Urban Hispanic VA Suicide Prediction Models.Rural mental health · 2025Article
- Suicide Risk Assessment on Social Media with Semi-Supervised Learning.Proceedings : ... IEEE International Conference on Big Data. IEEE International Conference on Big Data · 2024Article
- Suicide prevention skills training in pre-clerkship medical students: a pilot study.Canadian medical education journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
questionSuicide is a global public and mental health problem. The effectiveness of social support interventions has not been widely demonstrated in the prevention of suicide. We aimed to describe the methods of social support interventions in preventing suicide and examine the efficacy of them. STUDY SELECTION AND ANALYSIS: We searched literature databases and conducted clinical trials. The inclusion criteria for the summary of intervention methods were as follows: (1) studies aimed at preventing suicide through method(s) that directly provide social support; (2) use of one or more method(s) to directly provide social support. The additional inclusion criteria for meta-analysis on the efficacy of these interventions included: (1) suicide, suicide attempt or social support-related outcome was measured; (2) randomised controlled trial design and (3) using social support intervention as the main/only method.
findingsIn total, 22 656 records and 185 clinical trials were identified. We reviewed 77 studies in terms of intervention methods, settings, support providers and support recipients. There was a total of 18 799 person-years among the ten studies measuring suicide. The number of suicides was significantly reduced in the intervention group (risk ratio (RR)=0.48, 95% CI 0.27 to 0.85). In 14 studies with a total of 14 469 person-years, there was no significant reduction of suicide attempts in the overall pooled RR of 0.88 (95% CI 0.73 to 1.07).
conclusionsSocial support interventions were recommended as a suicide prevention strategy for those with elevated suicide risk.
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