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Effect of a Suicide Prevention Centre for young people with suicidal behaviour in Copenhagen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M. Nordentoft ,
J. Branner ,
K. Drejer ,
B. Mejsholm ,
H. Hansen  and
B. Petersson
M. Nordentoft*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, 2400CopenhagenNV, Denmark
J. Branner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, 2400CopenhagenNV, Denmark
K. Drejer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, 2400CopenhagenNV, Denmark
B. Mejsholm
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, 2400CopenhagenNV, Denmark
H. Hansen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2000Frederiksberg, Denmark
B. Petersson
Affiliation:
Institute of Public Health, Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200CopenhagenNV, Denmark
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: merete.nordentoft@dadlnet.dk (M. Nordentoft).
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Abstract

Background

In the 1980s, suicide rates in Denmark were among the highest in the world. In 1992, a Suicide Prevention Centre was opened in Copenhagen with a 2-week programme of social and psychological treatment. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of the Suicide Prevention Centre.

Methods

In a quasi-experimental study, 362 patients in the Suicide Prevention Centre and a parallel comparison group of 39 patients were interviewed with European Parasuicide Study Interviewer Schedule I (EPSIS I), which is a comprehensive interview including several validated scales. All patients were invited to follow-up interviews with EPSIS II and followed in the National Patients Register and the Cause of Death Register.

Results

At the 1-year follow-up, 59% of patients in the intervention group and 53% of patients in the comparison groups were interviewed with EPSIS II. The intervention group obtained a significantly greater improvement in Beck’s Depression Inventory, Hopelessness Scale, Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale and CAGE-score and a significantly lower repetition rate.

Discussions

Although the design cannot exclude selection bias, it seems likely that the improvement in the intervention group was facilitated by the treatment.

Keywords

SuicidePreventionMortalitySuicide attemptTreatment
Type
Original article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 121 - 128
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Copyright © Elsevier SAS 2005

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