A Community Intervention Trial of Multimodal Suicide Prevention Program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J)
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Suicide
- Sponsor
- Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health
- Enrollment
- 1951060
- Locations
- 7
- Primary Endpoint
- Incidence of suicide attempts (completed suicides and suicide attempts except mild case )
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 12 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
- The primary goal for this study is to examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in relatively high suicide rate region compared to control region.
- The secondary goal for this study is to explore the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in the highly populated regions. In addition, we examine the effectiveness of the prevention program in the all regions combined.
Detailed Description
Suicide is a major public health problem and the number of suicide victims has exceeded 30,000 a year since 1998 in Japan. Suicide rate is almost 25/100,000, which are remarkably high numbers among advanced countries. To examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention, a trial by J-MISP (Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention). This research project is one of the strategic research projects funded by The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Areas which meet the following criteria are eligible for this study;
- •An area with firm support from local government and other organizations to conduct this multimodal suicide prevention program
- •An area capable to select intervention and control regions
- •An area capable to follow the data collection procedure described in the protocol
- •An area with comparable baseline data on suicide attempts rate in intervention and control region
- •An area with comparable baseline data on demographics in intervention and control region
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Incidence of suicide attempts (completed suicides and suicide attempts except mild case )
Time Frame: 3.5years
Secondary Outcomes
- Incidence of completed suicides(3.5years)
- Incidence of suicide attempts(3.5 years)