Staff response to suicide of hospitalized psychiatric patients.
Hosp Community Psychiatry
; 29(2): 122-7, 1978 Feb.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-621000
ABSTRACT
The authors cite seven case histories of inpatients who committed suicide over a five-year period and analyze staff reaction and the changes in policy and procedures that followed. They conclude that staff feelings of guilt and failure brought about by inhospital suicides may result in the implementation of procedures designed to decrease risk, but that such procedures would not necessarily have prevented the suicide that led to their introduction. They maintain that staff acceptance of total responsibility for preventing suicide may achieve short-term safety at the expense of increased long-term risk, and that suicides can occur even when all reasonable precautions have been taken.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Unidade Hospitalar de Psiquiatria
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Suicídio
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Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Hosp Community Psychiatry
Ano de publicação:
1978
Tipo de documento:
Article