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Preventing suicide in community and custodial settings. Evidence review 6 for reducing access to means.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018)

NICE - n/a

Evidence Categories

  • Care setting: Other settings
  • Population group: Adults
  • Population group: Children & Adolescents
  • Intervention: Universal Intervention: Means restriction
  • Outcome: Suicide

Type of Evidence

NICE Underpinning Review

Overview

This evidence review underpinning NICE guidance NG105 focuses on local interventions to restrict or change access to the means of suicide and the aim is to determine whether these interventions are effective and cost effective at preventing suicide.

Recommendations

The evidence from this review supports the recommendations 1.6: Reducing access to methods of suicide.

This evidence review did not identify any recommendation for research.