Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Stefan Stijelja
Preventing suicidal and self-Injurious behavior in correctional facilities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Keywords Prison Inmates Suicide Self-harm Prevention Intervention Best practice Evidence before this study Suicide is a leading cause of deaths in prisons and the rate of self-harm is much higher than in the general population. There has been limited research that evaluated programmatic interventions to prevent suicide and self-harm in prisons, and none used meta-analyses to summarize intervention effects across studies.
Preventing suicidal and self-Injurious behavior in correctional facilities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Summary Background Rates of suicide and self-harm are elevated in carceral institutions. Inmates are a vulnerable group since they are exposed to multiple risk factors. This paper critically reviews empirical research on programs to prevent suicidal and self-harmful behaviors in correctional facilities and summarizes effect sizes across studies. Methods We searched PsychINFO, PubMed, IEEEXPLORE and the CRISE Documentation Centre Database to identify relevant articles published before June 2022.
Trends in US Suicide Deaths-Reply
In Reply Lennon and Hassan react to our 3 potential explanations of increasing US youth suicide rates1 in spite of the implementation of national prevention strategies with the contention that our first explanation (current approaches to youth suicide prevention are ineffective) must be accepted because “effectiveness in the context of rising rates is simply fallacious.” This affirmation confounds the clinical effectiveness of treatments and prevention initiatives with the impact of a...
COVID-19 and Psychological Distress-Changes in Internet Searches for Mental Health Issues in New York During the Pandemic
The highly contagious nature of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, leading to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, necessitated the enactment of public health actions on an unprecedented scale in US history. Closure of all nonessential businesses along with strict social-distancing measures were instituted to curb disease transmission across the nation.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Stefan
Contact Stefan, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack