A majority of planning steps leading up to a suicide attempt take place within 12 hours prior to the attempt.

This has implications for how we predict risk and try to intervene. If most of the relevant changes occur in the day before an attempt, we need to be able to detect them using some other strategies than what is currently done.

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References §

• Millner2016 - Describing and Measuring the Pathway to Suicide Attempts, A Preliminary Study