Preventing suicide in community and custodial settings. Evidence review 2 for local suicide plans.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018)

NICE - n/a

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Evidence Categories

• Care setting: Healthcare Setting
• Care setting: Other settings
• Population group: Adults
• Population group: Children & Adolescents
• Intervention: Selective interventions: Multicomponent (multiple selective components)
• Intervention: Multicomponent: across more than one level
• Outcome: Suicide

Type of Evidence

NICE Underpinning Review

Overview

This evidence review underpinning NICE guidance NG105 aimed to determine whether local suicide plans are effective and cost effective at preventing suicide, and to examine what components are present in effective plans. The practice of ‘suicide audit’ in the review refers to the systematic collection of local data on suicides in order to learn lessons and inform local suicide prevention plans. Only evidence statements meeting the scope of this topic evidence map have been reported below. For full detail and information on the other outcomes, please refer to the full-text.

Recommendations

The evidence from this review supports the recommendations 1.3 Suicide prevention action plans and 1.4 Gathering and analysing suicide-related information.

This evidence review did not identify any recommendation for research.