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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Suicide Res. 2002;6(2):167–184. doi: 10.1080/13811110208951174

Table 4.

What Should Be Done to Prevent Suicide: Judgements by the Authors Reviewed

Authors’ Suggestion for Prevention and
the Rank by Number of Papers		 # of
Papers		 % of
Papers
1. More psychological counseling services (134) 17.6%
2. Governments should do more to help (115) 15.1%
3. To enhance popular education against suicide (114) 15.0%
4. To promote research in China (91) 12.0%
5. To improve facilities for rescuing (62) 8.2%
6. Caring the attempted (49) 6.4%
7. To better manage and control farm chemicals (45) 5.9%
8. More and better treatment on suicidal patients (41) 5.4%
9. To strengthen management in mental hospitals (38) 5.0%
10. To control the drugs in mental hospitals (28) 3.7%
11. To pay more attention to suicide attempters (25) 3.3%
12. More work on mental patients’ prevention (18) 2.4%
    Total: (760) 100%