A Community Intervention Trial of Multimodal Suicide Prevention Program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J)

NCT00737165 | Completed DMC

• 2 other identifiers: J-MISP-02UMIN000000460
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,951,060
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 7

Brief Summary

1. 1.The primary goal for this study is to examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in relatively high suicide rate region compared to control region.
2. 2.The secondary goal for this study is to explore the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in the highly populated regions. In addition, we examine the effectiveness of the prevention program in the all regions combined.

Conditions

Suicide

Keywords

Suicide, Prevention; Community

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Incidence of suicide attempts (completed suicides and suicide attempts except mild case )

  3.5years

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Incidence of completed suicides

  3.5years

• Incidence of suicide attempts

  3.5 years

Study Arms (2)

Multimodal community intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Multimodal suicide prevention program

Behavioral: Multimodal suicide prevention program

Community intervention as usual

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Suicide prevention program as usual

Behavioral: Suicide prevention program as usual

Interventions

Multimodal suicide prevention program BEHAVIORAL

A community intervention of multimodal suicide prevention program includes following components: 1. Building support networks for suicide prevention and mental health promotion in public health system 2. Primary prevention of suicide and suicide related behaviors 3. Secondary prevention of suicide and suicide related behaviors 4. Tertiary prevention; after care for suicide survivors 5. Suicide prevention targeting for people with substance/alcohol- related disorders , schizophrenia and other mental health disorders 6. Suicide prevention targeting for people with work-related problems

Multimodal community intervention

Suicide prevention program as usual BEHAVIORAL

Usual suicide prevention program

Community intervention as usual

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Areas which meet the following criteria are eligible for this study;
• An area with firm support from local government and other organizations to conduct this multimodal suicide prevention program
• An area capable to select intervention and control regions
• An area capable to follow the data collection procedure described in the protocol
• An area with comparable baseline data on suicide attempts rate in intervention and control region
• An area with comparable baseline data on demographics in intervention and control region

You may not qualify if:

• None

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health: lead
• National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan: collaborator

Study Sites (7)

Akita region group

Akita, Akita, Japan

Location

Aomori region gruop

Aomori, Aomori, Japan

Location

Chiba region group

Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan

Location

Kita-Kyusyu region group

Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

Location

Iwate region group

Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Location

Minami Kyusyu region group

Kagoshima and Miyazaki, Kagoshima and Miyazaki, Japan

Location

Sendai region group

Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Ono Y, Awata S, Iida H, Ishida Y, Ishizuka N, Iwasa H, Kamei Y, Motohashi Y, Nakagawa A, Nakamura J, Nishi N, Otsuka K, Oyama H, Sakai A, Sakai H, Suzuki Y, Tajima M, Tanaka E, Uda H, Yonemoto N, Yotsumoto T, Watanabe N. A community intervention trial of multimodal suicide prevention program in Japan: a novel multimodal community intervention program to prevent suicide and suicide attempt in Japan, NOCOMIT-J. BMC Public Health. 2008 Sep 15;8:315. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-315.

  PMID: 18793423 BACKGROUND

• Ono H, Awada S, Iida H, Ishida Y, Ishizuka N, Iwasa H, Kamei Y, Motohashi Y, Nakagawa A, Nakamura J, Nishi N, Otsuka K, Oyama H, Sakai A, Sakai H, Suzuki Y, Tajima M, Tanaka E, Uda E, Yonemoto N, Watanabe N. [Importance of area activities to prevent suicide and the involvement of NOCOMIT-J]. Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi. 2008;110(3):216-21. No abstract available. Japanese.

  PMID: 18524043 BACKGROUND

• Ono Y, Sakai A, Otsuka K, Uda H, Oyama H, Ishizuka N, Awata S, Ishida Y, Iwasa H, Kamei Y, Motohashi Y, Nakamura J, Nishi N, Watanabe N, Yotsumoto T, Nakagawa A, Suzuki Y, Tajima M, Tanaka E, Sakai H, Yonemoto N. Effectiveness of a multimodal community intervention program to prevent suicide and suicide attempts: a quasi-experimental study. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 9;8(10):e74902. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074902. eCollection 2013.

  PMID: 24130673 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Suicide; Suicide Prevention

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Self-Injurious Behavior; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Yutaka Ono, MD,PhD

  Keio University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 15, 2008
• First Posted: August 18, 2008
• Study Start: July 1, 2006
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2009
• Study Completion: March 1, 2011
• Last Updated: October 31, 2013

Record last verified: 2013-10

Locations

JP (7)