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Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study
INTRODUCTION: Understanding the attitude of caregivers towards suicide attempters could be useful in suicide prevention. The objective of this study was to study attitude towards suicide among caregivers of patients with suicide attempt admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Nepal. METHODS: A descr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34508530 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.6246 |
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author | Thapa, Prekshya Lama, Sami Pradhan, Nirmala Thapa, Kriti Kumar, Rajesh Basnet, Madhur |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Understanding the attitude of caregivers towards suicide attempters could be useful in suicide prevention. The objective of this study was to study attitude towards suicide among caregivers of patients with suicide attempt admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Nepal. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 52 caregivers of patients with suicide attempt who had been admitted to a tertiary care hospital of Nepal after obtaining ethical clearance from Institutional Review Committee (ref. IRC/0797/016). Data were collected through interviews using the Attitude towards Suicide Questionnaire and in-depth interviews conducted on five caregivers using the interview framework developed in the department for the purpose. Data and descriptive analysis were done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 21. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and percentage for binary data. Content analysis was used for qualitative data. RESULTS: Majority of the caregivers 34 (65.4%) had unfavorable attitude towards suicide. Caregivers reported that mental and chronic physical illness, financial difficulty, working environment, and social factors such as undue pressure and failure to perform the task, difficulty maintaining the relationship, abuse, and neglect could be some of the possible causes of suicide. Caring and understanding attitude of family members, health professionals, and society towards the suicidal individuals providing appropriate training and education to the public would help in reducing the stigma and burden of suicidal patients. CONCLUSIONS: The overall attitude of the caregivers was unfavorable. Interventions targeted towards improving attitude towards suicide could be helpful in suicide prevention. |
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spelling | pubmed-83695852021-08-26 Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study Thapa, Prekshya Lama, Sami Pradhan, Nirmala Thapa, Kriti Kumar, Rajesh Basnet, Madhur JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Original Article INTRODUCTION: Understanding the attitude of caregivers towards suicide attempters could be useful in suicide prevention. The objective of this study was to study attitude towards suicide among caregivers of patients with suicide attempt admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Nepal. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 52 caregivers of patients with suicide attempt who had been admitted to a tertiary care hospital of Nepal after obtaining ethical clearance from Institutional Review Committee (ref. IRC/0797/016). Data were collected through interviews using the Attitude towards Suicide Questionnaire and in-depth interviews conducted on five caregivers using the interview framework developed in the department for the purpose. Data and descriptive analysis were done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 21. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and percentage for binary data. Content analysis was used for qualitative data. RESULTS: Majority of the caregivers 34 (65.4%) had unfavorable attitude towards suicide. Caregivers reported that mental and chronic physical illness, financial difficulty, working environment, and social factors such as undue pressure and failure to perform the task, difficulty maintaining the relationship, abuse, and neglect could be some of the possible causes of suicide. Caring and understanding attitude of family members, health professionals, and society towards the suicidal individuals providing appropriate training and education to the public would help in reducing the stigma and burden of suicidal patients. CONCLUSIONS: The overall attitude of the caregivers was unfavorable. Interventions targeted towards improving attitude towards suicide could be helpful in suicide prevention. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2021-04 2021-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8369585/ /pubmed/34508530 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.6246 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Thapa, Prekshya Lama, Sami Pradhan, Nirmala Thapa, Kriti Kumar, Rajesh Basnet, Madhur Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study |
title | Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study |
title_full | Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study |
title_fullStr | Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study |
title_short | Attitude Towards Suicide among Caregivers of Patients Admitted with Suicide Attempt in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Crosssectional Study |
title_sort | attitude towards suicide among caregivers of patients admitted with suicide attempt in a tertiary care hospital: a descriptive crosssectional study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369585/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34508530 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.6246 |
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