Care Models · United States
NIMH: primary care can play a key role in suicide prevention
Adding suicide care practices to routine adult primary care visits reduced suicide attempts by 25%.
These are short summaries of research and reporting published elsewhere. We link to the original. Mental Hum does not report these stories.
Mental Hum is owned and operated by Dean Shaban
An NIMH research highlight summarizes a large study showing that adding standardized suicide-care practices into routine adult primary care visits reduced suicide attempts by 25% in the months following the visit.
The finding is significant because most people who die by suicide saw a primary care clinician, not a mental health specialist, in the preceding year.
Read NIMH's full research highlight for the study details.
Mental Hum is a reading list, not a publisher. The summary above is our own editorial framing; the reporting and analysis live at the source.