Step 1. Importing citations

• Enter database name, search date, and other details into Custom 1.

Step 2. Title/Abstract level coding

• The objective of the title/abstract review phase is to eliminate obviously irrelevant publications. Abstracts that lack an explicit reference to suicidal self-directed violence (e.g., suicidally, behaviors, attempts, and suicides) will be excluded at this phase. Reviewers will provide decision and characteristic codes and these will be recorded in Custom 3 of the EndNote library.
  • Decision codes:
    • R=Retrieve
    • E=Exclude
    • B=Retrieve for Background
  • Characteristic codes: Our first priority is retrieval of systematic reviews, especially those focusing on Veteran/military populations. Our second priority is retrieval of primary studies in Veteran/military populations. For ease of identifying these subsets of publications in the ENL, reviewers should add either or both of the following codes when applicable:
    • SR=systematic review
    • V=Veteran and/or military population

Step 3. Full-text level coding

• Record final decision to include study in review, and any other study characteristics of interest.
  • Characteristics of interest (recorded in Custom Fields):
    • Population: Veteran/Military or Non-Veteran/Military
    • Intervention Type: Psychotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, or Referral/Follow-up
    • Study Design: Systematic Review, clinical trial (randomized or nonrandomized), observational study, other
  • Full-text exclusion codes to be entered into Custom 4:
    • 1=Non-English language
    • 2=Ineligible country (only including US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia)
    • 3=Ineligible outcome
    • 4=Ineligible intervention (i.e., broadly focused public health interventions implemented among populations, etc.)
    • 5=Study does not evaluate interventions
    • 6=Ineligible publication type (e.g., letter, editorial, publication available only as abstract, non-systematic review, etc.)
    • 7=Ineligible systematic review due to limitations in quality
    • 8=Nonsystematic regulatory agency analysis
    • 9=Non-RCT study design
• Full-text coding to be completed in the format of a label affixed to each publication in the format shown below. Reviewer 1 will circle relevant characteristics and inclusion decision, and list an exclusion code when applicable. Reviewer 2 will verify Reviewer 1's decisions and circle Agree or Disagree. All disagreements will be resolved using a consensus process and consensus decisions recorded.

Pop: Vet-Mil / Non-Vet-Mil

Intervention: Meds / Thpy / Ref-FU / NA

Design: SR / CT / Obs / Other

Rev1: Include / Exclude – Code: ____

Rev2: Agree / Disagree Consensus: ____