Clinical trial NCT00737165: A Community Intervention Trial of Multimodal Suicide Prevention Program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J)
Official title: A Community Intervention Trial of Multimodal Suicide Prevention Program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Suicide
Keywords: Suicide, Prevention
Community
Lead sponsor: Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan
First posted: 2008-08-18
Enrollment: 1951060
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 1. The primary goal for this study is to examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in relatively high suicide rate region compared to control region.
2. The secondary goal for this study is to explore the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention in the highly populated regions. In addition, we examine the effectiveness of the prevention program in the all regions combined.

Detailed description: Suicide is a major public health problem and the number of suicide victims has exceeded 30,000 a year since 1998 in Japan. Suicide rate is almost 25/100,000, which are remarkably high numbers among advanced countries. To examine the effectiveness of community-based multimodal intervention program for suicide prevention, a trial by J-MISP (Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention). This research project is one of the strategic research projects funded by The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Areas which meet the following criteria are eligible for this study;

  * An area with firm support from local government and other organizations to conduct this multimodal suicide prevention program
  * An area capable to select intervention and control regions
  * An area capable to follow the data collection procedure described in the protocol
  * An area with comparable baseline data on suicide attempts rate in intervention and control region
  * An area with comparable baseline data on demographics in intervention and control region

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of suicide attempts (completed suicides and suicide attempts except mild case )
timeFrame: 3.5years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of completed suicides
timeFrame: 3.5years
measure: Incidence of suicide attempts
timeFrame: 3.5 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ichikawa
country: Japan
facility: Chiba region group
state: Chiba
city: Kitakyusyu
country: Japan
facility: Kita-Kyusyu region group
state: Fukuoka
city: Morioka
country: Japan
facility: Iwate region group
state: Iwate
city: Sendai
country: Japan
facility: Sendai region group
state: Miyagi
city: Akita
country: Japan
facility: Akita region group
city: Aomori
country: Japan
facility: Aomori region gruop
city: Kagoshima and Miyazaki
country: Japan
facility: Minami Kyusyu region group
Study officials:
affiliation: Keio University
name: Yutaka Ono, MD,PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Ono Y, Awata S, Iida H, Ishida Y, Ishizuka N, Iwasa H, Kamei Y, Motohashi Y, Nakagawa A, Nakamura J, Nishi N, Otsuka K, Oyama H, Sakai A, Sakai H, Suzuki Y, Tajima M, Tanaka E, Uda H, Yonemoto N, Yotsumoto T, Watanabe N. A community intervention trial of multimodal suicide prevention program in Japan: a novel multimodal community intervention program to prevent suicide and suicide attempt in Japan, NOCOMIT-J. BMC Public Health. 2008 Sep 15;8:315. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-315.
citation: Ono H, Awada S, Iida H, Ishida Y, Ishizuka N, Iwasa H, Kamei Y, Motohashi Y, Nakagawa A, Nakamura J, Nishi N, Otsuka K, Oyama H, Sakai A, Sakai H, Suzuki Y, Tajima M, Tanaka E, Uda E, Yonemoto N, Watanabe N. [Importance of area activities to prevent suicide and the involvement of NOCOMIT-J]. Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi. 2008;110(3):216-21. No abstract available. Japanese.
citation: Ono Y, Sakai A, Otsuka K, Uda H, Oyama H, Ishizuka N, Awata S, Ishida Y, Iwasa H, Kamei Y, Motohashi Y, Nakamura J, Nishi N, Watanabe N, Yotsumoto T, Nakagawa A, Suzuki Y, Tajima M, Tanaka E, Sakai H, Yonemoto N. Effectiveness of a multimodal community intervention program to prevent suicide and suicide attempts: a quasi-experimental study. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 9;8(10):e74902. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074902. eCollection 2013.