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NOCOMIT-J community suicide prevention program

Also: Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention (J-MISP)

Japanese multimodal community intervention (July 2006, 3.5 years) in seven regions with matched controls, combining public and key-personnel awareness campaigns, screening and support of high-risk people, and after-care for the bereaved; prospectively registered.

Years
2006–2010
Country
Japan
Topic
Mental healthSuicide prevention
Asks people to
RecognizeSeek helpTalk to someone
Strategy
Multi level communityPolicy pairedSelf efficacy
Channel
Clinical settingEventsPrint
Audience
General publicOlder adults

Evidence

PreregisteredMixed

Ono et al. (2013), quasi-experimental with parallel controls (UMIN000000460, NCT00737165): in rural areas the composite of suicides plus emergency-admitted attempts fell 7% relative to control (not significant overall); significant in males (RR 0.77) and for attempts in males (RR 0.39) and the elderly (RR 0.35). No effect in highly populated areas. Safe messaging: not assessed.

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention (J-MISP) research group Academic, designer and evaluator

Credits (who made it)

  • Yutaka Ono Research evaluation, 2006-2013 source

Related campaigns

Sources

  1. Ono Y et al. Effectiveness of a multimodal community intervention program to prevent suicide and suicide attempts: a quasi-experimental study. PLoS One 2013;8(10):e74902 evaluation · 2013 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0074902 · PMID 24130673
  2. Ono Y et al. A community intervention trial of multimodal suicide prevention program in Japan (NOCOMIT-J). BMC Public Health 2008;8:315 reference · 2008 · DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-8-315 · PMID 18793423

Research notes

Government funding source not verified. Credits checked 2026-10-22 against fetched pages: Yutaka Ono (Crossref: first author of the 2008 BMC Public Health protocol and the 2013 PLoS One outcome paper). Corrected 2026-10-22: source added (previously none). Japan's national Suicide Prevention Week (10-16 September) and Cabinet Office sleep-themed posters ('Otou-san, nemureteru?') are candidates for separate records once verified. Evaluation links reviewed 2026-10-22: Ono 2008 (BMC Public Health) is the trial protocol without results, set to reference.

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