Welcome to the April edition of eNews, featuring news from the mental health and suicide prevention sector, as well as some of the latest published research in suicide prevention. If you would like to share your mental health or suicide prevention news, current initiatives, published research or research study opportunities, please email lifeinmind@health.nsw.gov.au
The Men’s Table celebrates milestone of 100 Tables The Men's Table began as an informal group of a dozen men gathering for dinner once a month to talk openly about the highs and lows of their lives. Now the group is celebrating its 100th Table.
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#FriendBetter with R U OK?: Tips to help support your matesInformed by the Connecting Young Australians report, a new campaign released by R U OK? is dedicated to helping young Australians aged 16 to 25 support their friends during tough times.
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New report released by Suicide Prevention Australia provides snapshot of suicide prevention reform in AustraliaThe State of the States in Suicide Prevention report highlights the impact of socioeconomic status on suicide risk, with age-standardised suicide rates highest for those living in low socioeconomic areas across the past ten years.
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LivingWorks delivers suicide prevention training for NSW secondary schools and communitiesThe evidence-based LivingWorks Start training is an interactive, online program, helping individuals to learn valuable suicide prevention skills. It is currently available for free for NSW high school teachers, staff, parents, carers and school communities.
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Our words matter: Guidelines for language useEverymind, with funding from the National Mental Health Commission, has launched a new set of guidelines aimed at improving the words we choose when communicating about mental health and wellbeing, mental health concerns, suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, and alcohol and other drugs (AOD).
Study demonstrates a strong link between maltreatment in childhood and self-harm and suicidal behavioursThe results from the study, released in early April in a special edition of the Medical Journal of Australia, included information on how common childhood maltreatment is, as well as the links with health risk behaviours later in life, such as self-harm and suicide attempts.
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Updates from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Suicide and Self-harm Monitoring SystemOn 6 April, new data was released on deaths by suicide among people who used disability services and the impact of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Updates were also made to ambulance attendances for suicidal and self-harm behaviours, the burden of disease
studies and COVID-19 psychological distress.
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Translated research studies
A translation of suicide prevention research on the Life in Mind portal. - Pathways, Contexts, and Voices of Shame and Compassion: A Grounded Theory of the Evolution of Perinatal Suicidality, by Laura J. Biggs, Bonnie Jephcott, Kim
Vanderwiel, Imogen Melgaard, Shannon Bott, Mitzi Paderes, Julie Borninkhof, and Melanie Birks
- Incidence of suicide and self-harm among people with opioid use disorder and the impact of opioid agonist treatment: A retrospective data linkage study, by Samantha Colledge-Frisby, Nicola Jones, Louisa Degenhardt, Matthew Hickman, Prianka Padmanathan, Thomas Santo Jr, Michael Farrell and Natasa Gisev
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