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Empowerment of teachers

Increasing awareness about mental health as an e-health tool to prevent suicide Lessons learned from the SEYLE and SUPREME EU-funded projects. Danuta Wasserman, M.D., Ph.D. -Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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Empowerment of teachers

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  1. Increasing awareness about mental health as an e-health tool to prevent suicideLessons learned from the SEYLE and SUPREME EU-funded projects Danuta Wasserman, M.D., Ph.D.-Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden -Head and Founder of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) -Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research, Training and Methods Development in Suicide Prevention -President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) E-mail: danuta.wasserman@ki.se Vladimir Carli, M.D., Ph.D.-Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden -Co-director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research, Training and Methods Development in Suicide Prevention -Vice President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) E-mail: vladimir.carli@ki.se

  2. Randomized Controlled Trial of Mental Health Promotion and Suicide preventive interventions that is performed in the real world of European High Schools. 3

  3. Empowerment of teachers • Question, Persuade and Refer, US gatekeeper training program, designed by the QPR Institute • Empowerment of professionals • ProfScreen, designed in Heidelberg, Germany • Empowerment of pupils • Awareness increasing intervention, designed at Columbia University and NASP

  4. Prevention Strategies: Awareness increasing intervention • A specifically tailored didactic and pedagogical booklet about healthy lifestyles with information about the possibility to seek help for unhealthy, suicidal behavior and mental health problems • Lectures with role-play • Posters in the classroom

  5. Between-group effects *=significant at p <0.05

  6. Suicide Prevention through Internet and Media Based Mental Health Promotion • SUPREME is a suicide prevention e-health programme targeting young people between the ages 14 and 24. • The project is funded (60%) through the Health Programme by the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC).

  7. Objectives of the SUPREME project • To develop and evaluate a sustainable internet based intervention • To systematically review evaluated internet-based intervention studies • To identify and systematically describe existing suicide-preventive websites • Establish and disseminate guidelines based on all of the above

  8. Help • On-site chat with mental health professional • Help-line referral (through establishing partnerships) • On-site anonymous email to mental health professional SUPREME Intervention Website achieving the objectives • Inform • Concise “static” information pages on mental health related topics • Definitions of terms related to mental health • Description of mental health problems • Awareness increasing learning modules • Mental health monitor module • Scales for self-assessment of mental health and well-being • Engage • Idea-box – professional feedback • Platform for (moderated) peer-to-peer communication about mental health

  9. Preliminary results Significant at p<0.001 • N= 1914 (females: 55.3%; mean age: 15.85 years) Significant at p<0.05 A trend towards reduction of suicide attempts was observed in website users in comparison with the control group.

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