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August 2006, Vol 96, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1339-1340
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.090597

LETTER

SCREENING FOR SUICIDE RISK

Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, PhD

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, PhD, Center for Community Health, UCLA, 10920 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 350, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (e-mail: rotheram@ucla.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

I read with great interest the article on screening high-school students for suicide risk by Hallfors et al.1 The suicide prevention program described by Hallfors et al. appeared to be one of the best implemented and managed programs possible. When it failed, the authors looked at organizational factors at the school level to suggest how the program could be better implemented on a more consistent basis. A more likely hypothesis is that this suicide prevention program was not feasible in a real-world school setting and a different approach should be adopted.

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