Suicide
Conditions
Keywords
Suicide, Prevention, Community
Brief summary
1. The primary goal for this study is to examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in relatively high suicide rate region compared to control region. 2. The secondary goal for this study is to explore the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in the highly populated regions. In addition, we examine the effectiveness of the prevention program in the all regions combined.
Detailed description
Suicide is a major public health problem and the number of suicide victims has exceeded 30,000 a year since 1998 in Japan. Suicide rate is almost 25/100,000, which are remarkably high numbers among advanced countries. To examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention, a trial by J-MISP (Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention). This research project is one of the strategic research projects funded by The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMultimodal suicide prevention program
A community intervention of multimodal suicide prevention program includes following components: 1. Building support networks for suicide prevention and mental health promotion in public health system 2. Primary prevention of suicide and suicide related behaviors 3. Secondary prevention of suicide and suicide related behaviors 4. Tertiary prevention; after care for suicide survivors 5. Suicide prevention targeting for people with substance/alcohol- related disorders , schizophrenia and other mental health disorders 6. Suicide prevention targeting for people with work-related problems
BEHAVIORALSuicide prevention program as usual
Usual suicide prevention program
Sponsors
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan
Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Areas which meet the following criteria are eligible for this study; * An area with firm support from local government and other organizations to conduct this multimodal suicide prevention program * An area capable to select intervention and control regions * An area capable to follow the data collection procedure described in the protocol * An area with comparable baseline data on suicide attempts rate in intervention and control region * An area with comparable baseline data on demographics in intervention and control region
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Incidence of suicide attempts (completed suicides and suicide attempts except mild case ) | 3.5years |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Incidence of completed suicides | 3.5years |
| Incidence of suicide attempts | 3.5 years |
Countries
Japan
Outcome results
None listed