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This review aimed to analyze the rates at which individuals contacted primary care and mental health professionals prior to suicide.

Contact With Mental Health and Primary Care Providers Before Suicide: A Review of the Evidence

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This review aimed to analyze the rates at which individuals contacted primary care and mental health professionals prior to suicide.
Reviewed 40 studies on health care contact rates before suicide.
Examined age and gender differences in health care contact.
Analyzed patterns of primary and mental health care contact among suicide victims.
Three-fourths of suicide victims had primary care contact within the year before their suicide.
Approximately one-third had contact with mental health services before dying by suicide.
Older adults were more likely to contact primary care providers within 1 month of suicide than younger adults.

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Review examines health care contact rates before suicide, highlighting implications for prevention strategies.

Luoma et al. (2002) studied this question.

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