fa تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research The national suicide prevention program integrated into PHC (Primary Health Care) in 2010 after promising results yielded by field clinical trial conducted in 2008 and 2009 [1,2]. The program implemented nationwide by Ministry of Health, Mental Health Bureau (MoH-MHB) through: <ol> <li>Providing the national program to the mental health officers of the provinces</li> <li>Holding training programs for different levels of health staff for the three levels of PHC by cascade style</li> <li>Developing educational manual for different levels of health staff</li> <li>Holding re-training workshops annually for the health staff</li> <li>Providing budget for the provinces as mental health budget globally</li> <li>Supervision and observation of the implementation of the program annually</li> </ol> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Parallel with the national suicide prevention program, a pilot study was conducted in 2009 on suicide registration in some provinces and their cities and districts. The successful results led the research studies [3] to develop a web-based registration program nationwide. The program was extended to other provinces and currently is executed in almost all provinces. The registration program was conducted by: <ol> <li>Developing educational manual for the mental health officer of each district</li> <li>Training the mental health officer</li> <li>Providing required equipment such as computer and internet network</li> <li>Providing regular supervision and monitoring from MoH-MHB.</li> <li>Establishing an information center as portal registration system in MoH-MHB, working with PHC, collecting and collating the data.</li> </ol> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After six years executing of the program, the MoH-MHB has decided to conduct an external evaluation of the programs through a systematic, comprehensive methodology by national and international consultants. Evaluation, Suicide Prevention, Iran 35 40 http://isssp.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-7&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Seyed Kazem Malakouti malakouti.k@iums.ac.ir 100319475328460033 100319475328460033 Yes Iran University of Medical Sciences