SynthesisScientific reports2022
Efficacy of interventions for suicide and self-injury in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy With and Without Narrative Assessment and Suicide Attempts: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- An update meta-analysis on the relationship between psychotic experiences and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in children and adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Brief Interventions for Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Young People: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Positive Affect as a Transdiagnostic Target for Reducing Adolescent Depression & Suicide Risk: Do Mindfulness, Savoring, & Gratitude Help?Journal of adolescence · 2026Trial
- Intermittent theta burst stimulation for non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents with major depressive disorder: a randomized, sham-controlled trial.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of two brief community practice-based interventions for self-harm and suicidal ideation.BMJ mental health · 2025Trial
- Psychosocial factors associated with non-suicidal self-injury in Iranian adolescents and young adults: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Predicting suicide attempts in a high-risk clinical cohort of adolescents using machine-learning.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Suicidal Behaviour, Self-Harm and Related Factors: A Retrospective Study from the Adolescent Psychiatric Unit.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Functional heterogeneity in non-suicidal self-injury across psychiatric disorders: neural and psychosocial correlates.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Bullying and Suicide Attempts Among US High School Students.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- A systematic review of existing brief interventions for youth following suicide attempt: informing the development of an autism-adapted intervention.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Early interventions for self-harm among children and young people in educational and primary-care settings: a scoping review.Cogent mental health · 2026Review
- Beyond distress relief: the Anhedonic Subtype of nonsuicidal self-injury and the imperative for Positive Affect Treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Chinese version of the Self-Injurious thoughts and behaviors Interview-Revised (C-SITBI-R): assessing NSSI and suicidal behaviors among adolescents in clinical settings.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Imitation, Rivalry, and Escalation: Rethinking Adolescent Self-Harm Through Mimetic Theory.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025Article
- Differential neural activity associated with emotion reactivity and regulation in young adults with non-suicidal self-injury.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Child and Adolescent Suicide in the Broader Area of Athens, Greece: A 13-Year Retrospective Forensic Case-Series Analysis.Pediatric reports · 2025Article
- Worsening sleep predicts next-week suicidal ideation in a high-risk adolescent outpatient treatment sample.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
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Abstract
Despite increased numbers of children and adolescents seeking and receiving mental health treatment, rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) in youth are rising. In the hopes of aiding ongoing efforts to alleviate the burden of SITBs in this vulnerable population, the present study summarizes current knowledge on the efficacy of SITB interventions in children and adolescents. We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing treatment effects on SITBs in child and adolescent populations. A total of 112 articles comprising 558 effect sizes were included in analyses. Nearly all interventions produced nonsignificant reductions in SITBs. For binary SITB outcomes, a nonsignificant treatment effect was detected, with an RR of 1.06 (95% CIs [0.99, 1.14]). For continuous SITB outcomes, analyses also yielded a nonsignificant treatment effect (g = - 0.04 [- 0.12, 0.05]). These patterns were largely consistent across SITB outcomes, regardless of intervention type, treatment components, sample and study characteristics, and publication year. Our findings highlight opportunities for improving SITB intervention development and implementation in child and adolescent populations. The most efficacious interventions are likely to directly target the causes of SITBs; therefore, future research is needed to identify the causal processes underlying the onset and maintenance of SITBs in youth.
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