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Supporting the mental health needs of community college students
The United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis, with youth and young adults at the center. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 50 percent of college students reported at least one mental health concern. The COVID-19 pandemic notably exacerbated these issues and underscored the urgent need to identify and implement ways to ameliorate the […]
Respite House evaluation report
The Centre for Suicide Prevention received funding from Alberta Health to pilot a respite centre in Fort McMurray. Respite centres are a community-based alternative to hospital care for people in suicidal crisis. Through short-term stays in a home-like environment, guests access 24/7 crisis de-escalation services, respite activities, peer support, and connection to community resources and […]
Development and evaluation of culturally adapted CBT to improve community mental health services for Canadians of South Asian origin: Final report 2023
People of South Asian descent living in Canada are impacted by various social determinants of health that can negatively influence their mental health and may decrease their access to care. South Asians in Canada with major depression are also 85 per cent less likely to seek treatment than other Canadians who experience the same illness.5 […]
Countdown global mental health 2030: Making mental health count
This is the second Countdown GMH 2030 report. It is underpinned by an indicator framework composed of four main pillars: determinants of mental health, factors shaping the demand (and need) for mental health care, factors shaping the strength of the mental health system, and wellbeing. The report presents an updated and extended indicator set, developed […]
Supportive practices for young people in out-of-home care who are at risk of suicidality
Suicide is the leading cause of death for young Australians aged 15–24 years and the fifth leading cause of death for children aged 1–14 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW], 2021). Evidence suggests children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC) are almost five times more likely to display suicidal behaviour than peers with […]
Research brief: Mental health of black transgender and nonbinary young people
Despite overall rates of suicidality among young people trending downward for the past 30 years, Black young people have experienced an increase in suicide attempts (Lindsey et al., 2019), with suicide rates among Black young people increasing 37% between 2018 and 2021 (Stone & Mack, 2023). Due to the already existing higher rates of suicide […]
SPRC 2021 Tribal suicide prevention needs assessment: Aggregate technical report
Between December 7, 2021, and January 28, 2022, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and its partners at Social Science Research and Evaluation, Inc., (SSRE) conducted a Tribal Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment (TNA) with 200 suicide prevention coordinators or other individuals most knowledgeable about the suicide prevention efforts of tribes and tribal health boards (Area […]
Suicide thoughts and behaviour in later life
The unique factors which contribute to suicide actions in later life are often more difficult to recognise than contributing factors in younger individuals. Suicide thought may be passively expressed and can be triggered by the experience of existential loneliness or a sense of a ‘completed life’. This can give rise to self-neglect, particularly of one’s […]
The gender suicide gap and differential misclassification: A research autobiography
This essay employs a social constructionist perspective to reassess the gender gap in US suicide rates during the early 21st century. Male rates well exceed female rates. However, suicide is undercounted, and undercounting is nonrandom by gender and method. Female suicides frequently select drug intoxication and other poisoning, a less forensically overt method than the […]
A picture may be worth a thousand lives: An interpretable artificial intelligence strategy for predictions of suicide risk from social media images
The promising research on Artificial Intelligence usages in suicide prevention has principal gaps, including black box methodologies, inadequate outcome measures, and scarce research on non-verbal inputs, such as social media images (despite their popularity today, in our digital era). This study addresses these gaps and combines theory-driven and bottom-up strategies to construct a hybrid and […]
Building a temporal sequence for developing prevention strategies, risk assessment, and perpetrator interventions in domestic abuse related suicide, honour killing, and intimate partner homicide
Objective • To build narrative tools for developing prevention strategies, risk assessment, and perpetrator interventions in domestic abuse related suicide, honour killing, and intimate partner homicide Outputs • Three draft tools were designed from the three data sets using temporal sequencing • The draft tools represent a simplified presentation of the temporal sequences and were […]
Underexamined and underreported: Suicidality and intimate partner violence: Connecting two major public health domains
Suicide and intimate partner violence (IPV) are each recognised as major public health concerns; however, the links between them have been critically under-examined. This briefing establishes the relationship between IPV and suicidality (suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts) and self- harm, setting out the ways in which women are disproportionately impacted and at greater risk of […]
How Farmstrong impacts farmer behaviour, to improve wellbeing: Report prepared for Farmstrong
MAIN FINDINGS · The primary way in which Farmstrong is impacting the farmers is through repeated exposure to the key messages. · Other contributors were: o Providing communications which resonate with farmers o Farmers seeing the value in what is being communicated · The triangulation of these qualitative findings with the Monitor data provides increased […]
Social network structure as a suicide prevention target
Introduction: The structure of relationships in a social network affects the suicide risk of the people embedded within it. Although current interventions often modify the social perceptions (e.g., perceived support, sense of belonging) for people at elevated risk, few seek to directly modify the structure of their surrounding social networks. We show social network structure […]
Assessing the social validity of a multi-modal school-based suicide prevention intervention: A scoping study
Aims: This scoping study aimed to interview school staff, secondary school students, parents, and mental health professionals in Merseyside to determine the social validity of the MAPSS programme, and to identify any necessary adaptations that should be made before it can be trialled, initially in Northwest England, and eventually in the whole of the UK. […]
Associations between natural language processing (NLP) enriched social determinants of health and suicide death among US veterans
Importance: Social determinants of health (SDOH) are known to be associated with increased risk of suicidal behaviors, but few studies utilized SDOH from unstructured electronic health record (EHR) notes. Objective: To investigate associations between suicide and recent SDOH, identified using structured and unstructured data. Design: Nested case-control study. Setting: EHR data from the US Veterans […]
The range of suicidal ideation among people with care experience: Occurrences of suicidal thoughts in a cross-national sample from England and Germany
Background: This paper investigates the range of suicidal ideation among people with care experience. People who grew up in care have an elevated risk of suicidal ideation, behavior and dying by suicide compared to people without care experience. Objective: A comprehensive and in-depth understanding of when suicidal ideation occurs and how care-experienced people experience suicidal […]
The Traveller Movement: Policy briefing addressing mental health and suicide among Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in England
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data reveal that there were 18,998 suicides in men and women aged between 20 and 64 years between 2011 and 2015, and that suicide is the leading cause of death in England in adults below the age of 50. Mortality data published by the ONS are collected from the information […]
Metis Nation of Alberta Life Promotion Guide: Weaving together Metis knowledge and practice
This life promotion guide is meant to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of programming that connects young people to life. While this guide is designed specifically to support programs offered by the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA), this guide may support others wishing to promote life, including community members or other stakeholders. This guide […]
Man Therapy: An innovative approach to suicide prevention for working aged men. A White paper
Suicide among Working Aged Men in the United States: Understanding the Problem Junior Seau, Kurt Cobain, Hunter S Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, and Don Cornelius were all famous and influential men whose lives were cut short by suicide. These deaths were widely covered in the media and discussed publicly, with little understanding of how or why […]
Executive summary: Towards a healthy and sustainable practice of law in Canada. National Study on the Health and Wellness Determinants of Legal Professionals in Canada, Phase 1
This executive summary presents the main findings and ten key recommendations emerging from the first phase of a national project under the direction of Prof. Nathalie Cadieux, which took place between 2021 and 2022. The results are based on the responses from an overall sample of 7,300 legal professionals working in each province and territory […]
In-person schooling and youth suicide: Evidence from school calendars and pandemic school closures
This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990-2019, we document the historical association between teen suicides and the school calendar. We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and lowest […]
The long-run effects of psychotherapy on depression, beliefs, and economic outcomes
We revisit two clinical trials that randomized depressed adults in India (n=775) to a brief course of psychotherapy or a control condition. Four to five years later, the treatment group was 11 percentage points less likely to be depressed than the control group. The more effective intervention averted 9 months of depression on average over […]
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