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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.
NAMI Montana hosts webinar with world-renowned expert on suicide prevention
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MONTANA â A world-renowned researcher in the field of suicide prevention spoke with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Montana to talk about the latest research in suicide prevention.
âOne of the difficulties in suicide prevention is that we have a lot of opinions, but the kind of rigorous evidence that is applied to other types of healthcare problem is often not applied in the same way through suicide prevention, says Dr. Mann.
Dr. J. John Mann published 458 papers and edited ten books on the topic of suicidal behavior and mental health. Dr. Mann visited NAMI Montana through a webinar to discuss his latest research that will soon be published into the American Journal of Psychiatry. Dr. Mann focuses on evidenced-based suicide prevention methods that can be utilize to help patients rather than feelings and opinions that he claims happens to