@article{ref1,
title="The effects on suicide rates of an educational intervention for front-line health professionals with suicidal patients (the STORM Project)",
journal="Psychological medicine",
year="2005",
author="Morriss, Richard and Gask, Linda and Webb, Roger and Dixon, Claire and Appleby, Louis",
volume="35",
number="7",
pages="957-960",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The opportunity to study district-wide educational interventions on suicide rates is rarely available. In 1997, the authors carried out a district-wide training programme for primary care, accident and emergency, and mental health workers (47% of eligible staff trained), and demonstrated improvements in skills, attitude and confidence among the recipients of the training. METHOD: Suicide rates (including definite suicides and undetermined deaths) and population statistics were collected for a district and region of England from official sources from 1993-2001. A before-and-after (1994-1996 and 1998-2000) training intervention analysis was conducted on suicide rates. RESULTS: The suicide rate in 1994-1996 was 8.8 per 100 000 before our educational intervention and unchanged at 8.6 per 100 000 in 1998-2000 after it (p = 0.783). CONCLUSION: Brief educational interventions to improve the assessment and management of suicide for front-line health professionals in contact with suicidal patients may not be sufficient to reduce the population suicide rate.",
language="",
issn="0033-2917",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}