The team, from the University of York and Tilburg University, developed SUPREMOCOL and implemented the program in Noord-Brabant, a province in the Netherlands that historically had highThe results from the five-year project showed that in the year prior to implementation, suicide rates in Noord-Brabant were 14.4 per 100,000 residents, but following implementation of the program in 2018, suicide rates dropped to 11.8 per 100,000 and remained low with a rate of 11.3 per 100,000 by 2021.
In other areas of the Netherlands, there was no such reduction in the rates of suicides over the same five-year period. The results of the study are published inIt is estimated that there are currently more than 700,000 suicides per year worldwide and the results of the study have been released to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September.
Also, contacting specialized mental health care is haphazard and waiting lists impair swift intervention to address problems that may lead to suicide. Project lead, Professor Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis, from the Department of Health Sciences and Hull York Medical School at the University of York, said,"Suicide is a preventable event and we should do what we can to achieve the reduction of suicide rates.in the community combined with swift access and monitoring played a pivotal role."People at risk for suicide were swiftly identified by triage on the spot, supported by a digital decision aid.