A Community Intervention Trial of Multimodal Suicide Prevention Program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J)
- Conditions
- Suicide
- Registration Number
- NCT00737165
- Lead Sponsor
- Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health
- 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1951060
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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
- None
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence of suicide attempts (completed suicides and suicide attempts except mild case ) 3.5years
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence of completed suicides 3.5years Incidence of suicide attempts 3.5 years
Trial Locations
- Locations (7)
Chiba region group
🇯🇵Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan
Kita-Kyusyu region group
🇯🇵Kitakyusyu, Fukuoka, Japan
Iwate region group
🇯🇵Morioka, Iwate, Japan
Sendai region group
🇯🇵Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Akita region group
🇯🇵Akita, Japan
Aomori region gruop
🇯🇵Aomori, Japan
Minami Kyusyu region group
🇯🇵Kagoshima and Miyazaki, Japan
Chiba region group🇯🇵Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan