Suicidality: Attitudes of general hospital staff

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Unit:
ΠΜΣ Διασυνδετική Ψυχιατρική: Απαρτιωμένη Φροντίδα Σωματικής και Ψυχικής Υγείας
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2017-11-29
Year:
2017
Author:
Geragoti Evanthia
Supervisors info:
Eμμανουήλ Ρίζος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής , Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Ρωσσέτος Γουρνέλλης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Αθανασία Παπαδοπούλου, Επιμελήτρια Α΄ Ψυχίατρος
Original Title:
Αυτοκτονικότητα: Οι στάσεις του προσωπικού σε γενικό νοσοκομείο
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Suicidality: Attitudes of general hospital staff
Summary:
Introduction: Suicide is a global and timeless phenomenon. The medical and nurse staff often comes in first contact with patients who commit a suicide. Respect for the patient along with knowledge and training of health professionals contribute decisively to successful and integrated management and treatment of these patients and as well as prevent a new attempt in the future.
Purpose: To investigate the attitudes of doctors and nurses towards patients who have attempted suicide in the general hospital.
Method and material: The study population consisted of 150 medical professionals, of whom 100 were doctors and 50 nurses working in pathological sector of University General Hospital «Attikon». The data collection was used to: a) a Demographic and Personal Data Questionnaire, b) the Suicide Behavior Attitudes Questionnaire (SBAQ) Botega et al (2005) c) the Eysenck Personality Minitest, which is the smallest issue of the Adult Personality Questionnaire (APQ). The investigation process lasted from March to September 2016.
Results: Physicians had a more emotional attitude towards patients who wanted to commit suicide (p =0.025) compared to nurses. Participants with a postgraduate or doctorate had a more emotional attitude towards the patients who want to commit suicide (p=0.011) compared to the high school graduates. Also, university graduates had a more emotional attitude towards patients who wanted to commit suicide (p=0.008) compared to high school graduates. Participants in the 35-39 age range (p=0.019) had a more positive attitude towards the patient's right to suicide compared to participants over the age of 40. Participants who rarely or never go to church (p<0.001) had a more positive attitude towards the patient's right to suicide compared to participants who go to church 2-3 times a week or more frequently. The rating in the dimension "Right to suicide" was significantly lower than those of dimensions "Emotions to the patient" and "Professional adequacy" (p<0.001 for both comparisons). There was a significant negative correlation of the dimension "Feelings to the patient" with the dimensions "Neuroticism" (p=0.001) and "Psychoticism" (p=0.004).
Conclusions: The specialty, the level of education and the age influence the attitude of the staff towards the attempted patients. Finally, it seems that religious emotion as well as the degree of neuroticism and psychoticism of the participants differentiate their attitude towards patients with an attempt.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Suicide, Attitudes, Medical and nursing staff
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
162
Number of pages:
110
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