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NEW YORK, NY (Feb. 18, 2021) A new study from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that suicide mortality can be reduced by a Federally coordinated approach employing scientifically proven options.
Columbia researchers J. John Mann, MD, Christina A. Michel, MA, and Randy P. Auerbach, PhD, conducted a systematic review, determining which suicide prevention strategies work and are scalable to national levels.
The study, Improving Suicide Prevention Through Evidence-Based
Strategies: A Systematic Review, was published online in the
American Journal of Psychiatry.
The researchers found that screening school children or the general population for those at risk for suicide the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S. with 48,344 suicide deaths in 2018 have generally not reduced suicide rates.