TY - JOUR AU - Shand, Fiona AU - Torok, Michelle AU - Cockayne, Nicole AU - Batterham, Philip J. AU - Calear, Alison L. AU - Mackinnon, Andrew AU - Martin, Dean AU - Zbukvic, Isabel AU - Mok, Katherine AU - Chen, Nicola AU - McGillivray, Lauren AU - Phillips, Matthew AU - Cutler, Henry AU - Draper, Brian AU - Sara, Grant AU - Christensen, Helen PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/15 TI - Protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster randomized controlled trial of the LifeSpan suicide prevention trial in four communities in New South Wales, Australia JO - Trials SP - 332 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Despite increasing investment in suicide prevention, Australian suicide rates have increased steadily in the past decade. In response to growing evidence for multicomponent intervention models for reducing suicide, the LifeSpan model has been developed as the first multicomponent, evidence-based, system-wide approach to suicide prevention in Australia. The LifeSpan model consists of nine evidence-based strategies. These include indicated, selective and universal interventions which are delivered simultaneously to community and healthcare systems over a 2-year implementation period. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of the LifeSpan model in reducing suicide attempts and suicide deaths in four geographically defined regions in New South Wales, Australia. SN - 1745-6215 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04262-w DO - 10.1186/s13063-020-04262-w ID - Shand2020 ER -