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Clinical Trials/NCT00737165
NCT00737165
Completed
Not Applicable

A Community Intervention Trial of Multimodal Suicide Prevention Program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J)

Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health7 sites in 1 country1,951,060 target enrollmentJuly 2006
ConditionsSuicide

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
July 2006
End Date
March 2011
Last Updated
12 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Parallel
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health
Responsible Party
Sponsor

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)

Study Sites (7)

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