«We hope these findings will help clinicians and health systems care for people with substance use disorders, with mental health conditions, and with both — and
focus suicide prevention efforts accordingly,» said lead study author Kipling Bohnert.
Not exact matches
Her own experience in a
suicide prevention training program mandatory for all civilian naval employees convinced her that
focusing such
efforts on the vulnerable could yield better results.
«The application of big data methods to target soldiers at high risk of rare but important outcomes like
suicide is an exciting development because it gives us a way forward in
focusing prevention efforts on an ongoing basis,» said Robert Ursano, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and an Army STARRS Principal Investigator.
But they say the new findings point to a need to
focus more veteran
suicide -
prevention efforts on those who have substance use disorders, especially if they also have depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder or anxiety.
Facebook started testing AI to improve its
suicide prevention efforts in March, with initial
efforts only
focused within the United States.