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Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study
BACKGROUND: Suicide is major public health issue worldwide. The educational interventions in enhancing the knowledge, modifying the attitudes, and raising the competence levels of healthcare professionals to prevent suicides have shown positive results. However, these education programs are under-ev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7928102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681036 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_984_20 |
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author | Saini, Vijay K. Gehlawat, Pratibha Gupta, Tanu |
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description | BACKGROUND: Suicide is major public health issue worldwide. The educational interventions in enhancing the knowledge, modifying the attitudes, and raising the competence levels of healthcare professionals to prevent suicides have shown positive results. However, these education programs are under-evaluated, especially in India. AIM: The aim was to evaluate the effect on suicide prevention and management-related knowledge among nursing staff, attitudes, and competence for suicidal patients and their family members. METHODS: A brief suicide educational intervention training program was prepared for the study participants. The outcomes of this study were evaluated through a single group pre-test–post-test questionnaire. RESULT: The mean age of the participants was 28.74 ± 5.73 years. Participants reported significant improvement in their attitude and knowledge about suicide after attending the training program. CONCLUSION: Empowering primary health care staff including nurses to identify, assess, manage, and refer the suicidal person should be considered as an important step in suicide prevention. |
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spelling | pubmed-79281022021-03-05 Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study Saini, Vijay K. Gehlawat, Pratibha Gupta, Tanu J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Suicide is major public health issue worldwide. The educational interventions in enhancing the knowledge, modifying the attitudes, and raising the competence levels of healthcare professionals to prevent suicides have shown positive results. However, these education programs are under-evaluated, especially in India. AIM: The aim was to evaluate the effect on suicide prevention and management-related knowledge among nursing staff, attitudes, and competence for suicidal patients and their family members. METHODS: A brief suicide educational intervention training program was prepared for the study participants. The outcomes of this study were evaluated through a single group pre-test–post-test questionnaire. RESULT: The mean age of the participants was 28.74 ± 5.73 years. Participants reported significant improvement in their attitude and knowledge about suicide after attending the training program. CONCLUSION: Empowering primary health care staff including nurses to identify, assess, manage, and refer the suicidal person should be considered as an important step in suicide prevention. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7928102/ /pubmed/33681036 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_984_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Saini, Vijay K. Gehlawat, Pratibha Gupta, Tanu Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study |
title | Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study |
title_full | Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study |
title_short | Evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: A pilot study |
title_sort | evaluation of knowledge and competency among nurses after a brief suicide prevention educational program: a pilot study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7928102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681036 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_984_20 |
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