NCT00737165

A Community Intervention Trial of Multimodal Suicide Prevention Program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,951,060 (actual)
• Sponsor: Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

1. The primary goal for this study is to examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in relatively high suicide rate region compared to control region. 2. The secondary goal for this study is to explore the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in the highly populated regions. In addition, we examine the effectiveness of the prevention program in the all regions combined.

Detailed description

Suicide is a major public health problem and the number of suicide victims has exceeded 30,000 a year since 1998 in Japan. Suicide rate is almost 25/100,000, which are remarkably high numbers among advanced countries. To examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention, a trial by J-MISP (Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention). This research project is one of the strategic research projects funded by The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Conditions

• Suicide

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multimodal suicide prevention program	A community intervention of multimodal suicide prevention program includes following components: 1. Building support networks for suicide prevention and mental health promotion in public health system 2. Primary prevention of suicide and suicide related behaviors 3. Secondary prevention of suicide and suicide related behaviors 4. Tertiary prevention; after care for suicide survivors 5. Suicide prevention targeting for people with substance/alcohol- related disorders , schizophrenia and other mental health disorders 6. Suicide prevention targeting for people with work-related problems
BEHAVIORAL	Suicide prevention program as usual	Usual suicide prevention program

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2008-08-18
• Last updated: 2013-10-31

Locations

7 sites across 1 country: Japan