Introduction: An excess of suicide-related deaths among agricultural workers has been documented in France and abroad. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study has examined...

The Samotrace program, “Mental Health Observatory for Work in the Rhône-Alpes and Centre Regions,” was created in 2003 with the goal of estimating the prevalence of mental health...

In 2018, France adopted a “Mental Health and Psychiatry” roadmap, in which suicide prevention is a top priority. Effective prevention tools have been identified; the challenge now is to...

The complexity involved in preventing suicidal behavior requires the development of a multimodal, integrated prevention strategy that covers the entire population while adapting to...

The Xavier-Marmier Comprehensive High School in Pontarlier (Doubs) has nearly 1,500 students, including 280 boarding students. A teaching assistant and a nurse completed the “Suicide...

Moved by the final writings of people who had taken their own lives, psychiatrist Jérôme Motto came up with the idea of reaching out again to everyone who had attempted suicide. This...

The VigilanS program is available to anyone who has attempted suicide. The goal is to maintain contact—by phone or mail—and to provide the most appropriate follow-up care if necessary....

The National Union for Suicide Prevention (UNPS) emphasizes the importance of the telephone counseling services provided by organizations as part of the current system for providing...

Suicide prevention in France relies in particular on the training of three types of professionals with distinct roles: the sentinel, the suicide risk assessor, and the crisis responder....

Paradoxically, sweeping suicide under the rug hinders any possibility of prevention. The right words to discuss suicide or a suicide attempt do exist, in the form of reporting that is...