The ‘European Alliance Against Depression’ community-based intervention approach simultaneously targets depression and suicidal behaviour by a multifaceted community based intervention and has been implemented in more than 115 regions worldwide. The two main aims of the European Union funded project “Optimizing Suicide Prevention Programmes and Their Implementation in Europe” were to optimise this approach and ...
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission (ec.europa.eu) within the Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement N° 223138. The following authors received the funding: NK KH A. Székely MT RG SQ EA CC MM AV CVA DMcD MS A. Schmidtke AG JC UH. The authors also acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Universität Leipzig within the program ...
Funding Information: The research within the ROAMER project leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 282586. Publisher Copyright: © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.; Background: The ROAdmap for MEntal health Research in Eu...
Background:Research concerning the association between use of antidepressants and incidence of suicide has yielded inconsistent results and is the subject of considerable controversy. The first aim is to describe trends in the use of antidepressants and rates of suicide in Europe, adjusted for gross domestic product, alcohol consumption, unemployment, and divorce. The second aim is to explore if any observed re...
Background: There is a lack of international research on suicide by drug overdose as a preventable suicide method. Sex- and age-specific rates of suicide by drug self-poisoning (ICD-10, X60-64) and the distribution of drug types used in 16 European countries were studied, and compared with other self-poisoning methods (X65-69) and intentional self-injury (X70-84). Methods. Data for 2000-04/05 were collected fro...