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The research on the effectiveness of interventions to prevent suicide and suicidal behaviour was commissioned by the Scottish Government.
The Scottish Government is currently considering this research''s recommendations for future research and practice, in line with of our continuing commitment to base suicide prevention and interventions on the best evidence base. A decision on commissioning specific research into the usefulness of green cards in the prevention of suicide among individuals who are known to practice self-harm will follow from this process.
Choose Life is Scotland''s national suicide prevention strategy and action plan, and suicide prevention is a cornerstone of the Scottish Government''s action on population mental health improvement. Choose Life will lead on acting on these research findings to improve suicide prevention measures, linking with national and local partners.
A variety of similar cards are already used in community settings by a range of statutory and voluntary partners in the context of suicide prevention, and several are promoted as part of Choose Life website resource database. All of these suicide prevention resources are also already evaluated at local level and their effectiveness is reported through Choose Life''s local action planning mechanism.