So is this new research? It's a review of all the recent reviews of studies of what works in suicide prevention. It was targeted at suicide, not wider aspects of mental health. And what it decides at the end of it all is that we still don't know enough about what can stop troubled young people from taking their lives. It's a major health issue among young people, but numbers of completed suicides are small enough to make it hard to study the effect of different interventions.
What kind of approaches did it look at? The researchers started with school-based programmes and found no evidence of their effectiveness.
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