BACKGROUND: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze health care data has become common in behavioral health sciences. However, the lack of training opportunities for mental health professionals limits clinicians' ability to adopt AI in cli...
BACKGROUND: The safety planning intervention (SPI) is a suicide prevention intervention that results in a written plan to help patients reduce suicide risk. High-quality safety plans-that is, those that are the most complete, personalized, and specif...
BACKGROUND: The rapid advancement of IT and the complexity of health care demand innovative nursing education that moves beyond lectures and workshops. Nursing students must acquire clinical knowledge alongside emotional intelligence (EI), empathic c...
BACKGROUND: Crisis support services offer crucial intervention for individuals in acute distress, providing timely access to trained volunteers whose human connection is key to the effectiveness of these services. However, there are significant dispa...
BACKGROUND: Suicide in local jails occurs at a higher rate than in the general population, requiring improvements to risk screening methods. Current suicide risk screening practices in jails are insufficient: They are commonly not conducted using val...
Suicide is a tragedy for family and society. With social media becoming an integral part of people's life nowadays, assessing suicidal risk based on one's social media behavior has drawn increasing research attentions. The majority of the works train...
BACKGROUND: Crisis hotlines serve as a crucial avenue for the early identification of suicide risk, which is of paramount importance for suicide prevention and intervention. However, assessing the risk of callers in the crisis hotline context is cons...
INTRODUCTION: Autistic people experience higher risk of suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempts (SA) compared to non-autistic people, yet there is limited understanding of complex, multilevel factors that drive this disparity. Further, determinan...
OBJECTIVE: Suicide risk assessment has historically relied heavily on clinical evaluations and patient self-reports. Natural language processing (NLP) of electronic health records (EHRs) provides an alternative approach for extracting risk predictors...
Suicide is among the leading causes of death worldwide and a concerning public health problem, accounting for over 700,000 registered deaths worldwide. However, suicide deaths are preventable with timely and evidence-based interventions, which are of...
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