Abstract
Introduction: Suicide rate in the Czechia (CZ) is persistently above EU and global average. Although some effective interventions exist, they are only sporadically implemented in CZ.
Also, umbrella policy such as national strategy for suicide prevention is missing. The aim of this study was to formulate basic document summarising effective suicide prevention interventions, which could stand as a basis for possible future national suicide prevention strategy.
Methods: This study is based on three interconnected activities - systematic review of the literature, analysis of foreign systems of suicide prevention and group discussion. Results: Project resulted in six general recommendations, which could inform national suicide prevention strategy, training in crisis intervention for suicidal individuals for psychiatric nurses and general practitioners, ensuring chain of care for individuals discharged from inpatient care in psychiatric hospitals, identification of suicide hot-spots, improving data collection and analysis and recommendation for implementation of suicide prevention programs in schools.
The secondary result is a set of effective suicide prevention interventions identified in a systematic literature review (n = 47). Discussion: Formulated recommendations are evidence-based, and they are consistent with recommendations of European task force for suicide prevention.
We assume, that implementation in one comprehensive program will result in synergic effect between individual interventions. Conclusion: Formulation and more important implementation of suicide prevention strategy are desirable and compliant with expert taskforce standpoint.
This strategy could be based on results of this study.