Harvard Study Forecasts Most Suicide Attempts One Week Ahead
TL;DR
Harvard researchers followed 600+ high‑risk individuals using real-time smartphone surveys and monitoring, predicting 75% of suicide attempts and 87% of related events within a week before they occurred, with agitation and rapid mood changes serving as strong indicators and potential for scalable, early interventions using alerts and wearables.
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- Study Finds New Way To Predict Suicide Attempts Days Before They Occur RTTNews
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