Table 1 Inclusion criteria

Population

All members of clinical care team

• Licenced and regulated practitioners

• Unregulated practitioners or clinical support teams such as peer support workers

Concept

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs): “A set of technologies resulting from the convergence of information technology and advanced multimedia and telecommunications techniques, which have enabled the emergence of more efficient means of communication, by improving processing, storage, distribution and exchange some information” [13]

• Suicide-related thoughts and behaviours [40]: represent a spectrum of suicide-related ideation, communication, behaviours and attempts with having casual to persistent suicidal thoughts with actual, undetermined or no suicidal intent (e.g., NSSI). This review will consider ICT-based interventions for suicide prevention regarding any sub-category of suicide-related thoughts and behaviours

• Suicide prevention interventions included but was not limited to the following list adapted from Wilson [7] and Zalsman [8]

• Screening and assessment

• Safety plan (e.g., identifying warning signs coping strategies, emergency contacts)

• Lethal means restriction and counselling

• Discharge or post-discharge follow up

• Behaviour or cognitive therapies

Context

Clinical/hospital setting or context (i.e., clinician-patient interaction in real time)

Source

• Primary research studies of any design

• Study protocols

• Conference papers, reports from relevant health services organizations

Language

English