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Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Review Open Access Preventing suicide: a resource for the family Sergio A Pérez Barrero Address: Medical University of Granma, Cuba Email: Sergio A Pérez Barrero - serper.grm@infomed.sld.cu Published: 24 January 2008 Received: 26 July 2007 Accepted: 24 January 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7:1 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-1 This article is available from: /content/7/1/1 © 2008 Barrero; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The family can play an important role in the prevention of suicide if it is capable of aiding the mental health care services in the early detection and management of family members at risk. In order to attain this goal, the whole family should be informed in how to prevent suicide. Background A total of 9 out of 10 people who committed suicide Suicide is one of the 10 major causes of death in most expressed their purposes clearly, and it is likely 10 in 10 countries. The family can play an important role in its pre- people who commit suicide will have hinted at their vention, as it is an avoidable cause of death. In order to be intention to put an end to their live. able