Suicide Prevention and Interventions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 July 2023) | Viewed by 8499
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Suicide is a major public health concern. Globally, approximately 700,000 people die by suicide each year. Suicide profoundly affects families, social networks, and the broader community. For each suicide, approximately 135 people are negatively affected. Suicide usually results from a unique and complex interaction between several risk factors. These risk factors can be sociodemographic, clinical, personality-based, environmental/situational, genetic, or neurobiological. To address the many complex risk factors associated with suicide and suicide-related thoughts and behaviours, multilevel prevention approaches are being used worldwide. Multilevel approaches consist of universal, selective, and indicated interventions. These interventions target different population groups with varying levels of risk. Universal interventions target the population; selective interventions target groups that are identified as high-risk but are not currently showing signs of suicide-related behaviours (e.g., people with a mental illness, people bereaved by suicide, young men); and indicated interventions target individuals displaying signs of suicide-related behaviours. There is, however, a lack of knowledge about which interventions are most effective in combating suicide. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on bringing together research across different disciplines that aim to understand suicidal thoughts and behaviours and the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing suicide.
Dr. Maria Ftanou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- suicide
- suicide ideation
- self-harm
- suicidal behaviour
- interventions
- prevention
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