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Evaluating Population-Level Interventions and Exposures for Suicide Prevention.

Matthew J Spittal, David Gunnell, Mark Sinyor, Angela Clapperton, Leo Roberts, Jane Pirkis, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

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Article in Crisis, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Uncovering Means Restriction Activities for Suicide Prevention That Have Been Undertaken in Australia: A Scoping Review.Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists · 2026
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  3. Preparing for a meta-analysis of rates: extracting effect sizes and standard errors from studies of count outcomes with person-time denominators.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026
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  5. Change in suicides during and after the installation of barriers at the Golden Gate Bridge.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Matthew J SpittalCentre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2841-1536
David GunnellNational Institute of Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bristol, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0829-6470
Mark SinyorDepartment of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7756-2584
Angela ClappertonCentre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6129-3404
Leo RobertsCentre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4486-8667
Jane PirkisCentre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2538-4472
Thomas NiederkrotenthalerUnit Suicide Research and Mental Health Promotion, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-9550-628X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Research DesignSuicide PreventionHumansPoisson DistributionSuicidedifference-in-difference designinterrupted time series analysispolicy evaluationpre–post designtime series analysis

Identifiers

PMID38770800
PMCPMC11783171

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