Suicide is the leading cause of avoidable death worldwide, demanding urgent attention. Collecting national-representative data is the first step towards developing effective evidence-based public-policies.
The SURVIVE study presents four inter-connected objectives:
- To determine the incidence of suicide attempts in Spain
- To follow up suicide attempters with the aim of studying the probability of them re-attempting
- To identify influential risk factors to explain suicide attempts and an increased risk of re-attempting
- To determine the efficacy of secondary prevention programs to prevent suicide re-attempts in comparison to treatment as usual (TAU).
Study design: Multi-site-coordinated cohort study with nested randomized controlled trials. Participants will be recruited at mental-health sites distributed across Spain.
Participants: A cohort of 2.000 individuals presenting a suicide attempt will be established.
Individuals would be followed for 1-year, and assessed every 3 months.
Participants (age >18) that meet inclusion/exclusion criteria will be randomly allocated to:
- telephone-based management, or 2) iFightDepression for Suicide (iFD-Survive), a web-based-self-management tool. These interventions will be tested against TAU.
Participants (age between 12-17) that meet inclusion/exclusion criteria will be randomly allocated to: 1)a face-to-face individual intervention designed for youths Specific Aware of Mental Health Intervention for adolescents (SAM) or 2) TAU.