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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 4 Synthesis of long-term results by strategy

From: Scoping review of 30 years of suicide prevention in university students around the world: efficacy, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness

 

Tracked by

 

Components

Audience

Knowledge of suicide prevention

Self-efficacy in suicide prevention

Gatekeeper behavior

Help-seeking behavior (2 months)

Personal stigma and public stigma

Treatment linkage (2 months)

Problem solving skills (1 month)

Rates of depressive and suicidal symptoms (1 month)

Completed suicide (6 years)

Gatekeeper

Harrod et al., 2014

Tompkins & Witt, 2009

Does not inform

Peer counselors

Long-term effect

There was no evidence

No evidence of effect

      

Yonemoto et al., 2019

   

No effects

      

Multimodal

Harrod et al., 2014 e

Joffe, 2008

Reduction of means, gatekeeper, and brief intervention

         

decrease

Robinson et al., 2018

Kreuze et al., 2017

King et al., 2015

Screening, feedback, and online counseling

Students

   

Increase

Decrease

Increase

   

Robinson et al., 2018

Fitzpatrick et al. (2005)

Screening and psychoeducation

Students

      

No effect

Decrease

 

Robinson et al., 2018

Kovac and Range (2002)

Screening and therapeutic writing

    

Statistically insignificant increase

   

There was no effect

 

Witt et al., 2019

Thompson et al. (2010)

Psychoeducation, gatekeeper, screening, improvement of counseling services

        

Decrease (after 1 year)