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## Background: Universal suicide education and awareness training in schools are promising suicide prevention initiatives. this study aims to evaluate a suicide awareness training (safetalk) and to model potential return on investment (roi) on a population basis. safetalk, comprises a 3-h education session, and has been delivered to secondary school students (aged 15-16 years) in mackay, located in the australian state of queensland. ## Methods: Evaluation consisted of two phases, ex-post and ex-ante. phase i was a pre-post, follow-up analysis using a mixed-method questionnaire administered immediately prior (time 1), immediately after (time 2), and 4 weeks after training (time 3). phase ii involved decision analytic modelling comparing safetalk to the status quo. roi was modelled using markov chains for a hypothetical population of students aged 15-19 years in mackay (n = 2561; suicide rate 78.1 per 100,000), queensland (n = 296,287; 10.2) and australia (n = 1,421,595; 8.3). model parameters, including rates of hospitalised self-harm and suicide, cost implications and effectiveness of safetalk were drawn from published literature. the baseline model adapted a health and justice sy

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Author

Irina Kinchin; Alex M. T. Russell; Dennis Petrie; Adrianne Mifsud; Laurence Manning; Christopher M. Doran

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)