title: Effectiveness of Telephone-Delivered Interventions Following Suicide Attempts: A Systematic Review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate efficacy of telephone-delivered interventions following suicide attempts.
  
  
  METHODS
  Systematic review, meta-analysis, and narrative synthesis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five papers evaluating telephone interventions were included. Three studies provided suicide attempters with telephone contact intervention, and two studies provided deliberate self-harm patients with crisis cards to help after discharge. Meta-analyses showed that telephone contact intervention did not significantly reduce further suicide attempts and completed suicides, and the crisis card did not significantly reduce further deliberate self-harm.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Telephone-delivered interventions have been suggested as an alternative to face-to-face psychotherapy, but their effectiveness in reducing the recurrence of suicide attempts is not supported.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Electronic address: daboknoh@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Dabok
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Noh
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Young-Su
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Eui Geum
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Oh
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods*; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013689:Telephone