A special post office is gaining a positive reputation for sending slow mail The image of a smiling panda suspended from a pole greets visitors along the Second Middle Street in the 798 Art Zone,a once industrial area...A special post office is gaining a positive reputation for sending slow mail The image of a smiling panda suspended from a pole greets visitors along the Second Middle Street in the 798 Art Zone,a once industrial area that has been reclaimed as a gathering place for Beijing’s innovative artists.展开更多
Suicide is a global public health problem with over one million people dying by suicide each year worldwide.Research efforts have focused on developing and testing novel suicide prevention strategies employing recent ...Suicide is a global public health problem with over one million people dying by suicide each year worldwide.Research efforts have focused on developing and testing novel suicide prevention strategies employing recent technological advances.In order to provide a review regarding the role of new technologies(e.g.,postcards/letters,text messages,crisis cards,telephone contacts,online interventions) in suicide prevention,we searched Pub Med,Science Direct,Research Gate,and Crisis to identify all papers in English from 1977 to 2016.Our results indicated that brief contact interventions show promise in reducing the number of episodes of repeated self-harm and/or suicide attempts following discharge from the Emergency Department or psychiatric units.Innovative methods of contact(e.g.,text messages) are easily implemented by clinicians and received by patients in the period of post discharge and have been shown to be beneficial.However,more research employing randomized clinical trials investigating the potential benefits of these novel suicide prevention methods is warranted.Future researchers should continue improving and testing new technologies in the prevention of suicide.展开更多
文摘A special post office is gaining a positive reputation for sending slow mail The image of a smiling panda suspended from a pole greets visitors along the Second Middle Street in the 798 Art Zone,a once industrial area that has been reclaimed as a gathering place for Beijing’s innovative artists.
文摘Suicide is a global public health problem with over one million people dying by suicide each year worldwide.Research efforts have focused on developing and testing novel suicide prevention strategies employing recent technological advances.In order to provide a review regarding the role of new technologies(e.g.,postcards/letters,text messages,crisis cards,telephone contacts,online interventions) in suicide prevention,we searched Pub Med,Science Direct,Research Gate,and Crisis to identify all papers in English from 1977 to 2016.Our results indicated that brief contact interventions show promise in reducing the number of episodes of repeated self-harm and/or suicide attempts following discharge from the Emergency Department or psychiatric units.Innovative methods of contact(e.g.,text messages) are easily implemented by clinicians and received by patients in the period of post discharge and have been shown to be beneficial.However,more research employing randomized clinical trials investigating the potential benefits of these novel suicide prevention methods is warranted.Future researchers should continue improving and testing new technologies in the prevention of suicide.
