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Mental health literacy among primary healthcare workers in South Africa and Zambia

Brain and Behavior, Volume 12, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Graphical Abstract Abstract Background In developing countries, mental health literacy (MHL) still needs to be improved due to the high prevalence of mental disorders. It is widely recognized that MHL can improve health outcomes for both individuals and populations.
Joonas Korhonen, Anna Axelin, Dan J. Stein, Soraya Seedat, Lonia Mwape, Ronelle Jansen, Gunter Groen, Gerhard Grobler, Astrid Jörns‐Presentati, Jouko Katajisto, Mari Lahti, MEGA Consortium/Research Team   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide risk assessment in the emergency department:an investigation of current practice in Scotland [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Suicide is a global public health issue. Approximately one third of individuals who complete suicide have attended an emergency department in the year preceding their death.
Chouliara, Zoe, Hauge, Samantha R., McClatchey, Kirstie, Murray, Jennifer, Rowat, Anne   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

The blood currency of suicidal mass shooters: 60 years of U.S. evidence [PDF]

, 2023
When looking at mass shooting incidents, suicidal shooters seem to carry an even more extreme sense of terror and brutality. The current study aimed to examine how mass shooters suicidality and suicide behavioral threshold influence the severity of the mass shooting.
arxiv   +1 more source

Detecting changes in help seeker conversations on a suicide prevention helpline during the COVID− 19 pandemic: in-depth analysis using encoder representations from transformers

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Preventatives measures to combat the spread of COVID− 19 have introduced social isolation, loneliness and financial stress. This study aims to identify whether the COVID-19 pandemic is related to changes in suicide-related problems for help ...
Salim Salmi, Saskia Mérelle, Renske Gilissen, Rob van der Mei, Sandjai Bhulai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Outcomes of a Chat-Based Suicide Prevention Helpline Be Improved by Training Counselors in Motivational Interviewing? A Non-randomized Controlled Trial

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022
ObjectiveTo examine whether the outcomes of a chat-based suicide-prevention helpline could be improved by training counselors in motivational interviewing (MI).MethodsIn a pre- and post-test design, visitors of a chat-based suicide prevention helpline ...
Wilco Janssen, Jeroen van Raak, Yannick van der Lucht, Wouter van Ballegooijen, Wouter van Ballegooijen, Saskia Mérelle   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Complexities of Suicide Bereavement Research [PDF]

, 2015
Statistics indicate a projected increase in the number of suicides by those in receipt of mental health services in England. Research has also shown that the impact of suicide on individuals who have lost someone to suicide have an increased risk of poor
Ali, Farzana
core   +1 more source

Robin: A Novel Online Suicidal Text Corpus of Substantial Breadth and Scale [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Suicide is a major public health crisis. With more than 20,000,000 suicide attempts each year, the early detection of suicidal intent has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Traditional mental health screening methods are time-consuming, costly, and often inaccessible to disadvantaged populations; online detection of suicidal intent ...
arxiv  

Restricting access to a suicide hotspot does not shift the problem to another location. An experiment of two river bridges in Brisbane, Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2014
Background: Restricting access to lethal means is a well‐established strategy for suicide prevention. However, the hypothesis of subsequent method substitution remains difficult to verify.
Chi‐kin Law, Jerneja Sveticic, Diego De Leo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Police Views of Suicidal Persons and the Law Criminalizing Attempted Suicide in Ghana: A Qualitative Study With Policy Implications

SAGE Open, 2017
The penal code of Ghana condemns suicide attempt. The present study sought to explore the views of the police on persons who attempt suicide and the law criminalizing the act.
Joseph Osafo, Charity S. Akotia, Emmanuel N.-B. Quarshie, Kofi E. Boakye, Johnny Andoh-Arthur   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intrapersonal positive future thinking predicts repeat suicide attempts in hospital-treated suicide attempters [PDF]

, 2015
Objective: Although there is clear evidence that low levels of positive future thinking (anticipation of positive experiences in the future) and hopelessness are associated with suicide risk, the relationship between the content of positive future ...
O'Connor, Rory C., Smyth, Roger, Williams, J. Mark G.   +2 more
core   +1 more source