Citation

Pitman A, Osborn DP. Br. J. Psychiatry 2011; 199(1): 8-10.

Affiliation

UCL Department of Mental Health Sciences, Bloomsbury Campus, Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House Street, London W1W 7EJ, UK. a.pitman@ucl.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

10.1192/bjp.bp.110.087817

PMID

21719875

Abstract

World Mental Health Survey data demonstrate that a high proportion of people who are suicidal receive no treatment and that, contrary to previous assumptions, attitudes to treatment constitute greater barriers to help-seeking than do stigma or structural/financial constraints. We explore how suicide-prevention policy-makers might respond to Bruffaerts et al's findings.

Language: en