Resource Tag: CASE MANAGEMENT

Suicide attempts constitute a serious clinical problem. People who have attempted suicide are at an elevated risk for additional suicide attempts, but there is limited evidence regarding the predictors of suicidality of suicide attempters following case management services. In the present study the indicators of suicidality after case management were examined. A total of 1,056 […]

Background: Suicide prevention contracting (SPC) procedures are often afforded clinical practice validity in the absence of evidence attesting to their efficacy and validity. Aims: This study sought to develop a contemporary profile of SPC, identifying factors associated with utilization, perceived effectiveness, and to describe potentially detrimental factors when activating SPC. Methods: A questionnaire was mailed to a sample […]

This study tested the effectiveness of a community-based suicide prevention team in preventing repeated suicide attempts & suicides, as part of a chain-of-care model for all general hospital treated suicide attempters in Baerum, Norway. Data has been collected consecutively since 1984. Between January 1984-December 2007, 1616 subjects were registered as having attempted suicide; 197 made […]

Chain of care for patients with intentional self-harm was important in the Norwegian national action plan to prevent suicide. In this study there were 2 aims: to calculate the potential effects of chain of care on reducing suicide rates; & to assess whether suicide rates decreased more in areas where chain of care had been […]

The impact of a care management intervention on suicide ideation & depression in older primary care patients was evaluated. Study participants were 599 patients 60 years or older with major or minor depression selected from practices randomly assigned to provide either the intervention or usual care. The intervention consisted of 15 trained care managers who […]

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of Intensive Case Management on outcomes for suicidal psychiatric patients in the post-discharge period, compared to Treatment as Usual. The intensive case management consisted of 2 primary components: weekly face-to-face case management & active telephone contact. Participants were adult male psychiatric patients drawn from the […]

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This longitudinal cohort study of 3,148 consecutive deliberate self-poisoning patients found 920 subjects were referred for psychiatric hospitalization, 576 on involuntary basis. A logistic regression analysis showed increased risk for: age 25 or older, unemployment, homelessness, previous self-harm, psychiatric inpatient treatment within 12 months, earlier psychiatric inpatient treatment, suicidal ideation or plan, mood or psychotic […]

In 2004, there were over 15,000 emergency department visits by adolescents aged 12-17 whose suicide attempts involved drugs. Almost three quarters of these drug-related suicide attempts were serious enough to merit the patientÕs admission to the same hospital or transfer to another health care facility. Pain medications were involved in about half of the suicide […]

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For the full book, please see SIEC #2005-0874

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”