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Suicide-preventive activities in psychiatric care: evaluation of an educational programme in suicide prevention.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  15513616     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
To promote implementation of suicide-preventive activities, the Swedish National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) introduced a 200-h academic, postgraduate educational programme (based on the training-of-trainers model) in suicide prevention. This programme was provided at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, for key persons in psychiatric care. Twenty-nine key persons from 11 psychiatric intervention clinics in Stockholm County attended the first course. Preconditions for implementing suicide-preventive activities were assessed by means of semi-structured interviews with all course participants still working in the intervention clinics (n=10). In all but one of these 10 clinics, a wide range of suicide-preventive activities had been implemented as a result of the NASP course. Activities varied in scope, but the key persons seemed to have succeeded in pinpointing the key elements in suicide prevention - the need for specific knowledge about the suicidal process and for well-defined suicide-preventive routines. However, organizational factors and staff turnover were obstacles to maintaining and making the activities routine. There is a need to strengthen the course participants' formal roles as implementers and encourage the clinical management in their continuous implementation of suicide-preventive activities.
Authors:
Inga-Lill Ramberg; Danuta Wasserman
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Nordic journal of psychiatry     Volume:  58     ISSN:  0803-9488     ISO Abbreviation:  Nord J Psychiatry     Publication Date:  2004  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2004-10-29     Completed Date:  2005-02-16     Revised Date:  2007-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  100927567     Medline TA:  Nord J Psychiatry     Country:  Norway    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  389-94     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Swedish National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at the Swedish National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Inga-lill.Ramberg@ipm.ki.se
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel*
Clinical Competence
Crisis Intervention*
Curriculum
Education, Medical, Graduate*
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Plan Implementation
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Male
Middle Aged
Psychiatry / education*
Social Work, Psychiatric / education*
Suicide / prevention & control*,  psychology
Sweden

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