Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Suicidal Behaviour and Relationship with a Nurse-Led Suicide Prevention Programme

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Judit Pons-Baños¹  Montserrat Serra-Millàs¹  Santiago Escoté-Llobet¹  Lola Riesco-Miranda¹  David Ballester-Ferrando²  Concepció Fuentes-Pumarola²  Jordi Jiménez-Nuño³ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Consorci Hospitalari de Vic, 08500 Vic, Spain;Health and Healthcare Research Group, Department of Nursing, University of Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain;Vic Forensic Medicine Department, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Spain;

关键词: preventive health services;    psychiatric nursing;    risk factors;    suicidal ideation;    suicide;    attempted;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph17238765

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Suicidal behaviour is a major public health problem that needs to be tackled by all health agents including mental health nurses. Aims: The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between demographic and clinical characteristics and different kinds of suicidal behaviour with a nurse-led suicide prevention programme. Methods: The design was a cross-sectional study, performed in the region of Osona (Catalonia) in the five-year period 2013–2017. Suicidal behaviour was classified as suicidal ideation, interrupted self-directed violence, suicide attempt or completed suicide. Results: The sample included 753 patients (of whom 53 completed suicide) who experienced 931 suicidal behaviour episodes. Men represented only 38.4% of the sample but 81.1% of completed suicides. Mental disorders were associated with suicidal behaviour in 75.4% of the sample. Two thirds (66.4%) of the individuals (0.8% (n = 4) of whom completed suicide) were participants in a nurse-led suicidal behaviour case management programme. Conclusion: The main risk factors were being a woman for suicidal behaviour and being a man and being older for completed suicide. Mental disorders, widowhood and retirement were also associated with completed suicide. The completed suicide rate was lower among participants in the nurse-led programme.

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