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After scouring data from nearly 600 studies conducted through the past 50 years, a team of 糖心vlog researchers has found that interventions struggle to reduce suicide and self-injury.

The team, led by FSU researchers working with colleagues from the University of Denver and Columbia University, found that interventions are no more effective today than they were five decades ago.

With that in mind, FSU Assistant Professor of Psychology Joseph Franklin, who was senior author, said the study shows it鈥檚 time to rethink clinical interventions designed to stop suicide and self-injury.

鈥淲e as researchers owe it to clinicians and the millions of people who struggle with suicidal thoughts and behaviors each year to fundamentally reconsider our approach,鈥� Franklin said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not going to make much progress by doing slight variations on what we鈥檝e been doing for decades.鈥�

In their study, 鈥�,鈥� published in the journal Psychological Bulletin, Franklin and his co-authors found the number of interventions for suicide and self-injury has increased dramatically over the past 50 years, but intervention effectiveness has been stuck at about 9 percent.

鈥淭his means that interventions in the 1970s were able to reduce suicide and self-injury by about 9 percent, and interventions in the 2010s are still only able to reduce suicide and self-injury by about 9 percent,鈥� said FSU graduate student Xieyining Huang, co-lead author on the study.

Researchers found this effect across all types of interventions that have been studied within gold-standard randomized controlled designs.

鈥淭he good news is that many different interventions 鈥� a wide range of talk therapies, medications, checking-in programs and many others 鈥� do cause reductions in suicide and self-injury,鈥� Huang said.

The bad news is that, after throwing hundreds of things at suicide and self-injury, nothing seems to get us much beyond a 9 percent reduction, Franklin said.

鈥淎ny reduction in suicide and self-injury is extremely valuable, but we need larger reductions,鈥� he said.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, the U.S. suicide rate has increased by nearly 30 percent since 2000.

Franklin added, 鈥淭his large increase has strangely occurred during a time when suicide awareness, intervention use and research have increased dramatically.鈥�

To make progress, Franklin proposed that researchers prioritize understanding the causes of suicide and self-injury, connect their work to advances in other areas of psychological science and partner with tech companies that can accelerate and scale research.

鈥淚 think all of the elements are there for us to make substantial progress in the near future, we just have to put them together,鈥� Franklin said.