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Saving lives by asking questions: nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling in primary health care

AIM: To explore nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling (TC) in primary health care (PHC). BACKGROUND: Globally, priority is given to developing suicide prevention work in PHC. However, suicide risk assessments in TC are not included in these interventions even though...

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Autores principales: Wärdig, Rikard, Engström, Ann-Sofie, Carlsson, Annelie, Wärdig, Frida, Hultsjö, Sally
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S146342362200055X
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author Wärdig, Rikard
Engström, Ann-Sofie
Carlsson, Annelie
Wärdig, Frida
Hultsjö, Sally
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description AIM: To explore nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling (TC) in primary health care (PHC). BACKGROUND: Globally, priority is given to developing suicide prevention work in PHC. However, suicide risk assessments in TC are not included in these interventions even though these are a common duty of nurses in PHC. More expertise in the field can contribute to knowledge important for developing nurses’ tasks within PHC. METHODS: A qualitative interview study was conducted with 15 nurses. Data were analysed using conventional content analysis. FINDINGS: As suicide risk assessment in TC is a common duty for nurses in PHC, they need to be listened to and given the right conditions to perform this work. The nurses lack training in how to carry out suicide risk assessments and are forced to learn through experience. Intuition guides them in their work. A prerequisite for making correct assessments over the telephone is that the nurses are given time as well as the right competence. The PHC organisation needs to create these conditions. Furthermore, interventions to support suicide prevention need to include strategies to help nurses perform suicide assessment in TC.
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spelling pubmed-96416642022-11-18 Saving lives by asking questions: nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling in primary health care Wärdig, Rikard Engström, Ann-Sofie Carlsson, Annelie Wärdig, Frida Hultsjö, Sally Prim Health Care Res Dev Research Article AIM: To explore nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling (TC) in primary health care (PHC). BACKGROUND: Globally, priority is given to developing suicide prevention work in PHC. However, suicide risk assessments in TC are not included in these interventions even though these are a common duty of nurses in PHC. More expertise in the field can contribute to knowledge important for developing nurses’ tasks within PHC. METHODS: A qualitative interview study was conducted with 15 nurses. Data were analysed using conventional content analysis. FINDINGS: As suicide risk assessment in TC is a common duty for nurses in PHC, they need to be listened to and given the right conditions to perform this work. The nurses lack training in how to carry out suicide risk assessments and are forced to learn through experience. Intuition guides them in their work. A prerequisite for making correct assessments over the telephone is that the nurses are given time as well as the right competence. The PHC organisation needs to create these conditions. Furthermore, interventions to support suicide prevention need to include strategies to help nurses perform suicide assessment in TC. Cambridge University Press 2022-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9641664/ /pubmed/36285522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S146342362200055X Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S146342362200055X
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