TY - JOUR
KW - Age Factors
KW - Humans
KW - Mental Health Services/statistics & numerical data
KW - Primary Health Care/statistics & numerical data
KW - Sex Factors
KW - Suicide/statistics & numerical data
KW - primary health services
KW - gender and age differences
KW - Mental Health
KW - Suicide
AU - K. Stene-Larsen
AU - A. Reneflot
A1 - 
AB - AIM: To examine rates of contact with primary and mental health care prior to suicide in men and women and across a range of age categories. METHOD: The authors performed a systematic review of 44 studies from 2000 to 2017 of which 36 reported rates on contact with primary health care and 14 reported on contact with mental health care prior to suicide. RESULTS: Contact with primary health care was highest in the year prior to suicide with an average contact rate of 80%. At one month, the average rate was 44%. The lifetime contact rate for mental health care was 57%, and 31% in the final 12 months. In general, women and those over 50 years of age had the highest rates of contact with health care prior to suicide. CONCLUSIONS: Contact with primary health care prior to suicide is common even in the final month before death. The findings presented in this study highlight the importance of placing suicide prevention strategies and interventions within the primary health care setting.
AD - Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Domain for Mental and Physical Health, Norway.; Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Domain for Mental and Physical Health, Norway.
BT - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
C5 - General Literature
CP - 1
CY - Sweden
DO - 10.1177/1403494817746274
IS - 1
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
M1 - Journal Article
N2 - AIM: To examine rates of contact with primary and mental health care prior to suicide in men and women and across a range of age categories. METHOD: The authors performed a systematic review of 44 studies from 2000 to 2017 of which 36 reported rates on contact with primary health care and 14 reported on contact with mental health care prior to suicide. RESULTS: Contact with primary health care was highest in the year prior to suicide with an average contact rate of 80%. At one month, the average rate was 44%. The lifetime contact rate for mental health care was 57%, and 31% in the final 12 months. In general, women and those over 50 years of age had the highest rates of contact with health care prior to suicide. CONCLUSIONS: Contact with primary health care prior to suicide is common even in the final month before death. The findings presented in this study highlight the importance of placing suicide prevention strategies and interventions within the primary health care setting.
PP - Sweden
PY - 2019
SN - 1651-1905; 1403-4948
SP - 9
EP - 17
EP - 
T1 - Contact with primary and mental health care prior to suicide: A systematic review of the literature from 2000 to 2017
T2 - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
TI - Contact with primary and mental health care prior to suicide: A systematic review of the literature from 2000 to 2017
U1 - General Literature
U2 - 29207932
U3 - 10.1177/1403494817746274
VL - 47
VO - 1651-1905; 1403-4948
Y1 - 2019
Y2 - Feb
ER -