VA Suicide Prevention Applications Network

VA telemental health: suicide assessment.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) encompasses one of the largest telemental health networks in the world, with over 45,000 videoconferencing and over 5,000 home telemental health encounters annually. Recently, the VA designated suicide prevention as a major priority, with telehealth modalities providing opportunities for remote interventions. Suicide risk assessments, using videoconferenc...

Integration of suicide prevention program into primary health care network: a field clinical trial in Iran

  Background: Suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by Primary Health Care (PHC) network. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into PHC netwo...

Technology-based suicide prevention: current applications and future directions.

This review reports on current and emerging technologies for suicide prevention. Technology-based programs discussed include interactive educational and social networking Web sites, e-mail outreach, and programs that use mobile devices and texting. We describe innovative applications such as virtual worlds, gaming, and text analysis that are currently being developed and applied to suicide prev...

Suicide Prevention

prevention of physicians’ suicide

suicide rate in physicians has been reported to be higher than general population or other academics. previous studies found that 85-90% of people who commit suicide had been suffering from some type of psychiatric disorder. suicide prevention is the key element in lowering the numbers of physicians who destroy themselves and end their lives each year. it is needed to provide some educational p...