Citation

Kessler RC. JAMA Psychiatry 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.1238

PMID

31188420

Abstract

Clinical epidemiological research on suicide-related behaviors (SRBs) is characterized by weak associations, weak effect sizes of clinical interventions, and strong effect sizes of some means-restriction interventions. These results have led several recent JAMA Psychiatry articles to conclude that nonclinical interventions must be central components in any successful multimodal SRB prevention strategy. I agree. But I disagree with the pessimism about components of this strategy in 2 of these recent articles: an editorial by Hoge about the low value of existing SRB-focused clinical trials and an article by Belsher et al about the low value of machine-learning (ML) methods ...

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