Adopt and enforce safe media-reporting guidelines for railway suicide
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Work with news media to adopt and enforce responsible suicide-reporting guidelines — no method/location detail, no sensational or repetitive coverage, sign-posting help — to suppress imitative clusters, the best-evidenced non-physical rail-suicide intervention.
Vienna, Austria
SuccessAustrian Association for Suicide Prevention / Viennese media · since 1987 · City
After a sharp rise in suicides on the Vienna subway following its opening, the Austrian Association for Suicide Prevention introduced media-reporting guidelines in 1987 and worked with journalists to change how subway s…
Vienna subway suicides/attempts after guidelines (1987)pre-guideline peak → -84.2%% change
Sustained reduction over five years~-75%% change
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