Objective: To weight the potential of promotion, prevention, and treatment programs to help establish priorities in multipronged suicide prevention strategies.
Methods: Psychological autopsy methods served to collect information on consecutive suicides over 14 months in New Brunswick (n = 102). A panel of researchers, clinicians, provincial planners, and consumers reviewed the cases and applied a systematic needs assessment procedure to establish interventions and services received, unmet needs at the individual level, and programmatic and systemic shortcomings.
Results: More than two-thirds of the individuals suffered from a depressive disorder and a similar proportion …