Characteristics of surveillance systems for suicide and self-harm: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide is a complex public health issue. Surveillance systems play a vital role in identifying trends and epidemiologic needs, informing public health strategies, and tailoring effective context-based suicide prevention interventions.

Aim

To identify and summarise the characteristics of specific surveillance systems and general health behaviour that include data onsuicide and self-harm.

Method

A scoping review following the JBI recommendations and PRISMA-ScR guidelines identified 29 relevant studies on suicide and self-harm surveillance systems. A systematic search was performed on Cinahl, Embase, Lilacs-Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, PubMed-US National Library of Medicine, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The eligibility criteria incl

SUBMITTER: Silva AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11218961 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature