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Suicide prevention: What does the evidence show for the effectiveness of safety planning for children and young people? – A systematic scoping review (2023)
Journal Article
Abbott-Smith, S., Ring, N., Dougall, N., & Davey, J. (2023). Suicide prevention: What does the evidence show for the effectiveness of safety planning for children and young people? – A systematic scoping review. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 30(5), 899-910. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12928

Introduction
Suicide is a leading cause of death for children and young people and its prevention is a global priority. Many Mental Health Services employ safety planning as a brief intervention. There is some evidence of safety planning effectivene... Read More about Suicide prevention: What does the evidence show for the effectiveness of safety planning for children and young people? – A systematic scoping review.

Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J., Dougall, N., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O'Connor, R., Williams, B., John, A., Cheyne, H., Fyvie, C., Bisson, J., Hibberd, C., Abbott-Smith, S., & Nolan, L. Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide. Presented at International Population Data Linkage Conference 2022

Objectives
Childhood adversity (CA) carries an increased risk of developing later mental health (MH) problems and suicidal behaviour. This study aimed to summarise lifetime hospital attendances for CA and MH in young people who later died by suicide... Read More about Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide.

Suicide prevention: Safety Plans Intervention for children and Young People - a scoping review of effectiveness (2021)
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Abbott-Smith, S., Ring, N., Dougall, N., & Davey, J. (2021). Suicide prevention: Safety Plans Intervention for children and Young People - a scoping review of effectiveness. [https://osf.io/scnhg/]

The aim of this scoping review is to identify and map the available evidence around effectiveness of Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) for Children and young people (CYP), as there has been no systematic review of SPI for CYP. Although recentlly the... Read More about Suicide prevention: Safety Plans Intervention for children and Young People - a scoping review of effectiveness.

Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a protocol for a longitudinal case-control linked data study (2020)
Journal Article
Dougall, N., Savinc, J., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O'Connor, R. C., Williams, B., Grandison, G., John, A., Cheyne, H., Fyvie, C., Bisson, J. I., Hibberd, C., Abbott-Smith, S., & Nolan, L. (2020). Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a protocol for a longitudinal case-control linked data study. International Journal of Population Data Science, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i1.1338

Introduction
Suicide is a tragic outcome with devastating consequences. In 2018, Scotland experienced a 15% increase in suicide from 680 to 784 deaths. This was marked among young people, with an increase of 53% in those aged 15-24, the highest sinc... Read More about Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a protocol for a longitudinal case-control linked data study.