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2025-11-25 | RESEARCH

The suicide drop in Russia's Northwest landed on men the clinic rarely sees

More than 96% of registered suicides in both subjects belong to the three generations above 20, and people under 19 account for fewer than 4% of cases – 87 deaths in St Petersburg across seven years – so whatever happens in the youngest group cannot move the regional rate in either direction.

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2025-09-11 | RESEARCH

Three components for every self-harm patient instead of three risk groups

Trials of cognitive behavioural therapy for self-harm recruited unselected patients, so the high-risk label is not what makes that treatment available.

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2025 | TOOL

One item on a depression questionnaire decides who gets assessed today

Of 4,674,515 eligible visits in 2019, 73 percent carried a screening; of the 128,996 positive screens, 16,094 people reached the brief intervention step.

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2024-11-05 | INDUSTRY

Toronto restricted access at one site and the effect held for seventeen years

At the site itself the count is 48 deaths in the five years before the barrier and 2 in the seventeen and a half years after. Across Toronto, bridge-related suicide fell 49% in the quarter after completion (IRR 0.51, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.86) and did not rebound over the following seventeen years (IRR 0.99, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.03), with no measured shift to other methods (IRR 1.04, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.20).

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RESEARCH8
RESEARCH
The suicide drop in Russia's Northwest landed on men the clinic rarely sees
More than 96% of registered suicides in both subjects belong to the three generations above 20, and people under 19 account for fewer than 4% of cases – 87 deaths in St Petersburg across seven years – so whatever happens in the youngest group cannot move the regional rate in either direction.
Psychiatry (Moscow) · 2025-11-25Read
RESEARCH
Three components for every self-harm patient instead of three risk groups
Trials of cognitive behavioural therapy for self-harm recruited unselected patients, so the high-risk label is not what makes that treatment available.
PLOS Medicine · 2025-09-11Read
RESEARCH
Eight questionnaires tested for binge-eating disorder and one for atypical anorexia
Eight questionnaires have been checked against a clinical interview for binge-eating disorder in adults living with higher weight, while atypical anorexia nervosa, purging disorder and night eating syndrome have one questionnaire each, and in adolescents the tested ground stops at binge eating and loss of control.
International Journal of Eating Disorders · 2026-05-20Read
RESEARCH
The eating disorder score predicted GLP-1 use six months later, the BMI did not
A one-point rise in a seven-item questionnaire score doubled the odds that a woman would be taking a GLP-1 six months later, 2.00 (95% CI 1.27 to 3.15), while her body mass index, in the same model with the same controls, did not reach significance, 1.05 (0.99 to 1.11).
Eating and Weight Disorders · 2026-03-06Read
RESEARCH
Steeper on current exposure than on cumulative: valproate and PCOS in a Danish register
The authors state their own conclusion this way: valproate exposure was associated with an increased risk of polycystic ovary syndrome in women with bipolar disorder or epilepsy, with the strongest associations observed for current cumulative exposure and additional risk apparent at high cumulative dosages, while overall cumulative exposure showed a less clear dose-response pattern.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders · 2026-01-14Read
RESEARCH
Benefit-risk arithmetic for monthly aripiprazole: the harm column was built from relapses
The authors conclude that "Data suggest a favorable benefit-risk profile for AOM 400 versus placebo as a long-term maintenance treatment for BP-I", and all four of the paper's benefit-harm ratios are built on who stopped attending, while the akathisia in 21.2% of patients and the weight gain in 23.5% are printed one table earlier and never enter them.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2026-07-01Read
RESEARCH
Admissions, not craving scores: what a Swedish register found for four alcohol medicines
The outcome here is an admission recorded by a national register rather than anything a patient or a clinician rated, and the deaths of 4,565 people in the cohort were used to end observation rather than counted as an outcome.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2025-03-17Read
RESEARCH
Three times the deaths, and the usual risk chart stops predicting all-cause mortality: six years of follow-up in Russian narcology patients
The outcome here is a death certificate rather than a craving score, and it shows that a patient admitted to a narcology ward carries three times the all-cause mortality of a low-risk drinker, with a modelled ninefold for external causes that rests on 20 deaths and a very wide confidence interval, from 2.63 to 33.3.
BMC Public Health · 2024-11-12Read
CLINICAL TOOL5
TOOL
One item on a depression questionnaire decides who gets assessed today
Of 4,674,515 eligible visits in 2019, 73 percent carried a screening; of the 128,996 positive screens, 16,094 people reached the brief intervention step.
JAMA Network Open · 2025Read
TOOL
Four referrals to a psychiatrist and not one questionnaire behind them
The appendix the national template reserves for assessment scales, questionnaires and other instruments for evaluating the patient's state, as printed in full: not provided.
Российская ассоциация эндокринологов и Общество бариатрических хирургов, одобрено Научно-практическим Советом Минздрава России · 2024Read
TOOL
Counted by the decade: the lithium renal algorithm and the patient who pays over forty years
The sentence the authors placed in their conclusion and not in their abstract: lithium treatment should neither be withheld nor continued reflexively solely on the basis of renal concerns, and what replaces the reflex is an individualized, trajectory-based assessment that balances substantial therapeutic benefit against renal risk, preserving lithium's role as a first-line treatment while safeguarding long-term patient health.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders · 2026-04-25Read
TOOL
Twelve weeks of vouchers or six: what STAR-OM settled in fifteen Vietnamese methadone clinics
The trial is called Screen, Treat and Retain, and retention in methadone treatment is neither among the outcomes it reports nor among the sixteen it registered: what it reports is methamphetamine-negative urine, twice a week, for 25 weeks.
The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia · 2026-04-24Read
TOOL
Six sessions, a manual and a psychology graduate: what DREAMS START can and cannot show
This trial has no objective sleep outcome at all: the registered actigraphy was usable in 22.3% of dyads at 8 months, and every reported number came from the unmasked family carer.
Health Technology Assessment (NIHR Journals Library) · 2026-02-01Read
INDUSTRY8
INDUSTRY
Toronto restricted access at one site and the effect held for seventeen years
At the site itself the count is 48 deaths in the five years before the barrier and 2 in the seventeen and a half years after. Across Toronto, bridge-related suicide fell 49% in the quarter after completion (IRR 0.51, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.86) and did not rebound over the following seventeen years (IRR 0.99, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.03), with no measured shift to other methods (IRR 1.04, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.20).
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry · 2024-11-05Read
INDUSTRY
Ninety-two percent of what the line can pick up
The line answers 532 calls a day, which the ministry reports as 92 percent of its daily answering ceiling of 580, while the calls arriving average 1,118 a day.
보건복지부 (Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea), 자살예방정책과 (Suicide Prevention Policy Division) · 2026-05Read
INDUSTRY
Britain counts packs and money, so the people had to be counted by telephone
Britain can count the pens it dispenses and the money they cost, and it took a telephone survey of 5,893 households to establish that about 1.6 million adults have used these drugs for weight loss and another 3.3 million would consider it. 15.0% of users named a product not licensed for weight loss, and interest runs at 11.7% among people finding it very difficult to manage financially against 4.5% among those living comfortably.
BMC Medicine · 2026-01-08Read
INDUSTRY
Eight hospitals for 47 prefectures, and a year counted in contacts
The scheme has run since fiscal 2014 and stands at eight designated hospitals across 47 prefectures, and the year it reports is counted in 2,425 contacts, 2,045 of them first-time, set beside a national estimate of approximately 220,000 people with an eating disorder.
国立精神・神経医療研究センター (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry), по заказу Министерства здравоохранения, труда и благосостояния Японии · 2025-07Read
INDUSTRY
Two outcomes and nothing else: what Japan's national claims database counts as a result in bipolar disorder
The authors' head conclusion is that mono- and combination therapy exhibited substantial heterogeneity in their effectiveness for preventing psychiatric hospitalisation, and that hospitalisation, together with hospitalisation of any cause, is the whole of what this publication measures.
The British Journal of Psychiatry · 2026-04-30Read
INDUSTRY
Eleven cards out of 127: what Russian psychiatrists entered as the reason for changing bipolar treatment
A switch or augmentation of therapy is required by no less than a third of patients taking antipsychotics, the author concludes on pages 31 to 32, and quetiapine is perceived by psychiatrists as a highly effective and well tolerated antipsychotic with a broad spectrum of action going beyond the official indications; his own closing sentence adds that doctors' ideas about the antiresistant properties of the drug require confirmation in real clinical practice and in randomised trials. The article is sponsored by NovaMedica, and a patient entered the programme only if the treating doctor had already decided on quetiapine.
Nevrologiya, neiropsikhiatriya, psikhosomatika (Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics) · 2025-02-16Read
INDUSTRY
One barrier removed, four in five still without buprenorphine: the large count after the X-waiver
The waiver disappeared and the share of newly diagnosed adults given buprenorphine moved from 18.8% to 19.6%, while retention, overdose and death were not measured at all.
Substance Use & Addiction Journal · 2026-01-30Read
INDUSTRY
Twenty-three areas out of thirty are green or blue on four standards: how Scotland closed a five-year mission against drug deaths
After page 12 the report gives no mortality figure at all: not in the results, not in the overview, not in the conclusion, not in the appendices.
Public Health Scotland · 2026-07-07Read
RESOURCES5
RESOURCE
Forty seven statements, a yes or a no, and the date the service looks again
The unit of this toolkit is a row – a statement about the service, a yes or a no, the date it will be looked at again, and a line for what the service intends to do.
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide, Homicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Манчестерский университет · 2026-07-01Read
RESOURCE
NEDC orders its five eating disorder modules the way a clinical contact unfolds, from prevention to the end of treatment
Five modules run in the order clinical contact unfolds – recognise, screen, respond, refer, support – and NEDC has approved the whole five hours as the introductory training required for the ANZAED Eating Disorder Credential.
National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC), инициатива, финансируемая Министерством здравоохранения и ухода за пожилыми Австралии · 2025Read
RESOURCE
Four weeks, three months, two years: NICE CG185 times every taper and sets no threshold for planned withdrawal
The guideline times every taper to the week and specifies immediate withdrawal when the liver or the blood count says so; for planned stopping of maintenance treatment, sections 1.7 and 1.10 name no threshold in episodes or months of remission and leave the moment inside a required conversation.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), developed within the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health · 2025-09-02Read
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Twenty-six modules, eight credits and no patient outcome: what British Columbia's free opioid agonist course actually certifies
The programme counts completions, preceptors and prescribers; its own report measures neither retention in treatment nor overdoses nor deaths, and names retention once, among next year's plans.
BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), with the UBC Faculty of Medicine Division of Continuing Professional Development · 2025-03-31Read
RESOURCE
WHO iSupport: a free 23-lesson carer manual, four PDFs on one IRIS record, and one null trial
The manual is a content base, not a stand-alone intervention: the largest iSupport trial to date found no separation from usual care when carers were left to work through it alone.
World Health Organization (WHO IRIS) · 2019-05-20Read

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