Objective. To describe and evaluate the feasibility of integrating a suicide prevention program with Primary Health Care services
and evaluate if such system can improve screening and identification of depressive disorder, reduce number of suicide attempters,
and lower rate of suicide completion. Methodology. This was a quasi-experimental trial in which one community was exposed to
the intervention versus the control community with no such exposure. The study sites were two counties in Western Iran. The
intervention protocol called for primary care and suicide prevention collaboration at different levels of care. The outcome variables
were the number of suicides committed, the number of documented suicide attempts, and the number of identified depressed
cases. Results. We identified a higher prevalence of depressive disorders in the intervention site versus the control site (