A systematic assessment of smartphone tools for suicide prevention

ME Larsen, J Nicholas, H Christensen - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Suicide is a leading cause of death globally, and there has been a rapid growth
in the use of new technologies such as mobile health applications (apps) to help identify and …

Can postdischarge follow-up contacts prevent suicide and suicidal behavior?

DD Luxton, JD June, KA Comtois - Crisis, 2013 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Background: The time period following discharge from inpatient psychiatry and emergency
department (ED) treatment is one of heightened risk for repeat suicide attempts for patients …

Adaptation of evidence‐based suicide prevention strategies during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

D Wasserman, M Iosue, A Wuestefeld… - World psychiatry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Suicide is preventable. Nevertheless, each year 800,000 people die of suicide in the world.
While there is evidence indicating that suicide rates de‐crease during times of crises, they …

The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management

M Maj, DJ Stein, G Parker, M Zimmerman… - World …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Depression is widely acknowledged to be a heterogeneous entity, and the need to further
characterize the individual patient who has received this diagnosis in order to personalize …

Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention

L Sher - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Suicide is a major medical and social problem. Decades of suicide research have mostly
focused on risk factors for suicidal behaviour while overlooking protective factors such as …

mHealth for mental health: Integrating smartphone technology in behavioral healthcare.

DD Luxton, RA McCann, NE Bush… - Professional …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
The rapid growth in the use of smartphones has opened a new world of opportunities for use
in behavioral health care. Mobile phone software applications (apps) are available for a …

Social media and suicide: a public health perspective

DD Luxton, JD June, JM Fairall - American journal of …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
There is increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related
behavior. Important questions are whether this influence poses a significant risk to the public …

From treatment to healing: envisioning a decolonial digital mental health

SR Pendse, D Nkemelu, NJ Bidwell, S Jadhav… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The field of digital mental health is making strides in the application of technology to
broaden access to care. We critically examine how these technology-mediated forms of care …

A linguistic analysis of suicide-related Twitter posts

B O'dea, ME Larsen, PJ Batterham, AL Calear… - Crisis, 2017 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Background: Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. Identifying those at risk and
delivering timely interventions is challenging. Social media site Twitter is used to express …

E-health interventions for suicide prevention

H Christensen, PJ Batterham, B O'Dea - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Many people at risk of suicide do not seek help before an attempt, and do not remain
connected to health services following an attempt. E-health interventions are now being …