Citation

Wang YC, Hsieh LY, Wang MY, Chou CH, Huang MW, Ko HC. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2015; 46(1): 106-120.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, College of Medical and Health Sciences, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12177

PMID

26201436

Abstract

This randomized controlled trial was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of using crisis coping cards (n = 32) in the case management of suicide prevention compared with case management without the use of coping cards (n = 32) over a 3-month intervention period. The generalized estimating equation was used to examine the interaction effect between treatments and time on suicide risk, depression, anxiety, and hopelessness.

RESULTS indicated that subsequent suicidal behaviors, severity of suicide risk, depression, anxiety, and hopelessness were reduced more in the coping card intervention group compared to the case management only group. Moreover, for the survival curves of time to suicide reattempt, the coping card group showed a significantly longer time to reattempt than the case management only group at 2-month and 3-month intervention periods.

Language: en