National suicide management guidelines recommending family-based prevention, intervention and postvention and their association with suicide mortality rates: systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicidal behaviour remains a major public health concern and countries have responded by authoring guidelines to help mitigate death by suicide. Guidelines can include family-based recommendations, but evidence for the level and category of family-based involvement that is needed to effectively prevent suicide is unclear.

Aims

To explore the association between family-based recommendations in guidelines and countries' crude suicide rates. PROSPERO registration: CRD42019130195.

Method

MEDLINE, Embase, PsycInfo, Web of Science and WHO MiNDbank databases and grey literature were searched within the past 20 years (1 January 2000 to 22 June 2020) for national guidelines giving family-based recommendations in any of three categories (prevention, intervention and

SUBMITTER: Panesar B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8935913 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature