Table 1.
Candidate Aspirational Goals | Final prioritized ranking | Median score | Interquartile range |
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Aspirational Goal 6: Ensure that people who have attempted suicide can get effective interventions to prevent further attempts. (Prevention of reattempts) | 1 | 32 | 28335 |
Aspirational Goal 9: Ensure that people getting care for suicidal thoughts and behaviors are followed throughout their treatment so they don’t fall through the cracks. (Enhanced continuity of care) | 2 | 32 | 28335 |
Aspirational Goal 7: Ensure that healthcare providers and others in the community are well trained in how to find and treat those at risk. (Provider training) | 3 | 31 | 27334 |
Aspirational Goal 8: Ensure that people at risk for suicidal behavior can access affordable care that works, no matter where they are. (Access to affordable and effective care) | 4 | 31 | 27334 |
Aspirational Goal 4: Ensure that people who are thinking about suicide but have not yet attempted receive interventions to prevent suicidal behavior. (Psychosocial interventions for those at risk) | 5 | 30 | 26334 |
Aspirational Goal 10: Increase help-seeking and referrals for at-risk individuals by decreasing stigma. (Stigma reduction) | 6 | 30 | 25334 |
Aspirational Goal 1: Know what leads to, or protects against, suicidal behavior, and learn how to change those things to prevent suicide. (Risk and protective factor interactions) | 7 | 30 | 26334 |
Aspirational Goal 11: Prevent the emergence of suicidal behavior by developing and delivering the most effective prevention programs to build resilience and reduce risk in broad-based populations. (Population-based risk-reduction and resilience-building.) | 8 | 29 | 25333 |
Aspirational Goal 3: Find ways to assess who is at risk for attempting suicide in the immediate future. (Prediction of imminent risk) | 9 | 29 | 24334 |
Aspirational Goal 5: Find new biological treatments and better ways to use existing treatments to prevent suicidal behavior. (Improved biological interventions) | 10 | 27 | 22331 |
Aspirational Goal 12: Reduce access to lethal means that people use to attempt suicide. (Reduction of access to lethal means) | 11 | 27 | 21332 |
Aspirational Goal 2: Determine the degree of suicide risk (e.g., imminent, near-term, or long-term) among individuals in diverse populations and in diverse settings through feasible and effective screening and assessment approaches. (Population- and setting-based screening) | 12 | 23 | 18329 |
Median score refers to medial of summed scores on four criteria.