TACKLING SUICIDE AT SUICIDE HOTSPOTS

"Finding a safe space": A qualitative study of what makes help helpful for adolescents bereaved by suicide

Karl Andriessen, Karolina Krysinska, Debra Rickwood, Jane Pirkis

2021-08-26

Experiencing a death by suicide is a devastating event in the lives of adolescents; however, little is known about what makes help..

Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

Jane Pirkis, Ann John, Sangsoo Shin, Marcos DelPozo-Banos, Vikas Arya, Pablo Analuisa-Aguilar, Louis Appleby, Ella Arensman, Jason Bantjes, Anna Baran, Jose M Bertolote, Guilherme Borges, Petrana Brečić, Eric Caine, Giulio Castelpietra, Shu-Sen Chang, David Colchester, David Crompton, Marko Curkovic, Eberhard A Deisenhammer

2021-07-01

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic is having profound mental health consequences for many people. Concerns have been expressed that..

Clinical efficacy of a Decision Support Tool (Link-me) to guide intensity of mental health care in primary practice: a pragmatic stratified randomised controlled trial

Susan Fletcher, Matthew J Spittal, Patty Chondros, Victoria J Palmer, Mary Lou Chatterton, Konstancja Densley, Maria Potiriadis, Meredith Harris, Bridget Bassilios, Philip Burgess, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Jane Pirkis, Jane Gunn

2021-03-01

BACKGROUND: The volume and heterogeneity of mental health problems that primary care patients present with is a substantial challe..

Risk factors associated with suicide clusters in Australian youth: Identifying who is at risk and the mechanisms associated with cluster membership

Nicole TM Hill, Matthew J Spittal, Jane Pirkis, Michelle Torok, Jo Robinson

2020-12-01

Background: It is unclear who is at risk of being involved in a suicide cluster and whether suicide clusters are influenced by the..