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Objetivo: Evaluar la satisfacción de personas con conducta suicida y de sus familiares con la información incluida en la «Guía de práctica clínica de prevención y tratamiento de la conducta suicida». Método: Los participantes fueron reclutados a través de un programa de prevención de suicidio (Programa de intervención intensiva en conducta suicida [PII]) y de una Asociación (Federación de Asociaciones de Familiares y Personas con enfermedad mental de Galicia [FEAFES]). Se diseñó un cuestionario ad hoc para conocer el grado de satisfacción y utilidad percibidas con la información incluida en la guía. Resultados: La muestra estuvo formada por 57 pacientes con ideación o conducta suicidas y 52 familiares. Los pacientes puntuaron significativamente más bajo que los familiares en las 2 dimensiones: formato y utilidad; sin embargo, no se encontraron diferencias significativas entre ambos grupos en el nivel de satisfacción general. Las variables sociodemográficas no influyeron en los resultados. Tampoco se encontraron diferencias entre pacientes con y sin antecedentes de conducta suicida. Conclusiones: En general, tanto pacientes como familiares mostraron un alto nivel de satisfacción con el documento. Los participantes destacaron la atención primaria como el ámbito más adecuado para la difusión de este tipo de información. Suministrar información de estas características a pacientes con ideación y/o conducta suicida podría actuar como herramienta preventivo-educativa (AU)
Objective: To assess the satisfaction of persons with suicidal behaviour and their relatives using patient information material included in the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour. Method: The sample was made up of 57 patients with suicidal ideation or behaviour, and 52 relatives. The participants were recruited through a suicide prevention programme (Programa de intervención intensiva en conducta suicida [PII] - Suicidal Behaviour IntensiveIntervention Programme) and a family association (Federación de Asociaciones de Familiares y Personas con enfermedad mental de Galicia [FEAFES] - Galician Federation of Associations of Relatives and Persons with mental diseases). An ad-hoc questionnaire was designed to ascertain the degree of perceived satisfaction and usefulness of using the information included in the guidelines. Results: The descriptive data of the sample is presented, along with an exploratory factorial analysis of the questionnaire that yielded two dimensions, i.e., format and usefulness. Patients scored significantly lower than the relatives in two dimensions; nevertheless, no significant differences were found between the two groups in the level of general satisfaction. The sociodemographic variables did not influence the results. Similarly, no differences were observed between patients with and without history of suicidal behaviour. Participants stressed that Primary Care was the setting best suited for dissemination of this type of information. Conclusions: In general, both patients and relatives displayed a high level of satisfaction with the patient information material assessed. Furnishing information of this type to patients with suicidal ideation and/or behaviour could act as a preventive-educational tool (AU)
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Humans , Suicide/prevention & control , Information Services/organization & administration , Patient Satisfaction/statistics & numerical data , Evaluation of Results of Preventive Actions , Guidelines as TopicABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To assess the satisfaction of persons with suicidal behaviour and their relatives using patient information material included in the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour. METHOD: The sample was made up of 57 patients with suicidal ideation or behaviour, and 52 relatives. The participants were recruited through a suicide prevention programme (Programa de intervención intensiva en conducta suicida [PII] - Suicidal Behaviour Intensive Intervention Programme) and a family association (Federación de Asociaciones de Familiares y Personas con enfermedad mental de Galicia [FEAFES] - Galician Federation of Associations of Relatives and Persons with mental diseases). An ad-hoc questionnaire was designed to ascertain the degree of perceived satisfaction and usefulness of using the information included in the guidelines. RESULTS: The descriptive data of the sample is presented, along with an exploratory factorial analysis of the questionnaire that yielded two dimensions, i.e., format and usefulness. Patients scored significantly lower than the relatives in two dimensions; nevertheless, no significant differences were found between the two groups in the level of general satisfaction. The socio-demographic variables did not influence the results. Similarly, no differences were observed between patients with and without history of suicidal behaviour. Participants stressed that Primary Care was the setting best suited for dissemination of this type of information. CONCLUSIONS: In general, both patients and relatives displayed a high level of satisfaction with the patient information material assessed. Furnishing information of this type to patients with suicidal ideation and/or behaviour could act as a preventive-educational tool.
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Family/psychology , Patient Education as Topic , Patient Satisfaction , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Primary Health Care , Suicide Prevention , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Mental Disorders/epidemiology , Mental Disorders/psychology , Middle Aged , Patient Selection , Patients/psychology , Psychometrics , Sampling Studies , Socioeconomic Factors , Spain/epidemiology , Suicidal Ideation , Suicide/psychology , Suicide/statistics & numerical data , Suicide, Attempted/psychology , Suicide, Attempted/statistics & numerical data , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
We investigated the Castilian Spanish versions of three scales (the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, the Carroll Rating Scale for Depression, and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale) as to their suitability for classifying major depression patients in four levels of severity prior to treatment with tricyclic antidepressants, and also as to their suitability for classifying these patients in four improvement levels when administered posttreatment. Although the scales behaved quite similarly, each was most efficient at the task for which it had been designed, i.e., severity rating for the Hamilton and Carroll scales, improvement rating for the Montgomery-Asberg scale.
