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Abstract
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Implications for practice and research
Developing suicide prevention tools targeting males without known mental health conditions (KMHC) may help reduce their risk of suicidality.
Qualitatively exploring mechanisms of decisive suicidal behaviour among males without KMHCs may help develop their tailored suicide prevention programmes.
Context
Suicide is potentially preventable yet, contributes significantly to premature death, killing 43 375 people in the USA in 2018.1 Compared with females, males experience fewer known mental health issues,2 engage in fewer suicidal thoughts and plans and make lesser suicide attempts, yet use more lethal means, thereby more frequently killing themselves.2 This disparity is attributed to males' relatively lesser help-seeking tendencies, more impulsive responsiveness to life situations and higher access to lethal means such as firearms than females.2 However, we …
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