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“an encouraging trend”

356 sentences · 356 papers · 609 search hits before verification · confirmed specimen

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Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

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16 A systematic review of 16 studies across the world that used mobile phones, text messaging, and other technological modes of brief interventions in individuals with suicidal behaviors demonstrated an encouraging trend toward reduction in suicidal ideation, hopelessness, and depression in such individuals. 17 Thus, while follow-up phone contacts in persons with suicidal behaviors are useful as additional treatments in persons with suicidal behaviors, there is a need to further evaluate the type of telephone interventions that could be useful in Indian settings.
While it displays an encouraging trend, using such wealth-based indicators may skew our assessment of distributional equity: adding the other demographical, social, and economic factors through the VERSE Equity Toolkit (detailed in the Methods) brings the concentration indices back in positive values, highlighting the adverse effect of compounding disadvantages on coverage.