{"doi":"10.1111/sltb.13041","title":"A profound absence of counseling interventions for suicide prevention among youth in Africa: A call to action based on an empty scoping review","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: One-third of all global suicide deaths occur among adolescents and young adults, making suicide the second leading cause of death among young people. Nearly 80% of suicide deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, and many African nations have higher rates of suicide than global averages. However, interventions are scarce. We conducted a scoping review of counseling interventions for suicide prevention among youth in Africa. METHOD: We performed structured searches of the Medline, Embase, PyscINFO, African Index Medicus, Global Heath Database, and Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global databases. Studies were eligible for inclusion if they described a counseling intervention conducted in Africa, focused on participants under age 22, and included a suicide-related outcome. RESULTS: After removal of duplicates, 1808 titles and abstracts were screened and 10 studies were identified for full-text review. Of these, six included adult participants and did not disaggregate results for youth, two did not describe an intervention, and two did not include a relevant outcome. Thus, no studies were eligible for inclusion. CONCLUSIONS: This empty review highlights the striking absence of published research on a life-threatening public health challenge, representing a distinct call to action for improved efforts in adolescent suicide prevention in Africa.","journal":"Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior","year":2024,"id":459112,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9566,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1285906,"name":"Armstrong Obale","orcid":"0009-0006-5804-5377","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":307344,"name":"Iqbal Hamza","orcid":"0000-0003-0045-0610","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1286354,"name":"Mela C. Fotabong","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1286355,"name":"Ngaha N. Philippe","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1285907,"name":"Margaret Graton","orcid":"0000-0001-5612-1934","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1021678,"name":"Leila Ledbetter","orcid":"0000-0002-5206-8002","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":449671,"name":"Brandon A. Knettel","orcid":"0000-0003-2986-1579","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":28,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:03:55.280882Z","pmid":"38214345","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}