Knowing What Works

'Knowing What Works' is one of the objectives of Choose Life by:

"improving the quality, collection and availability of information on issues relating to suicide and suicidal behaviour and on effective interventions to ensure the better design and implementation of responses and services and use of resources" [ Choose Life National Strategy and Action Plan, 2002, p. 30].

To date, this objective is being addressed in a number of ways:

SIREN

• Suicide Information Research and Evidence Network (SIREN)

Research and Evaluation

A number of pieces of research and evaluation have been commissioned, these include:

• Independent Evaluation of the First Phase of Choose Life
• Pulling Together the Evidence
• The Epidemiology of Suicide in Scotland
• Small Projects Initiative

For more information, visit the Research and Evaluation section of this website.

Choose Life distils and presents suicide statistics on an annual basis. For more information visit the Statistics section of this website, or the  Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO)website.