Pons-Baños, J.; Ballester-Ferrando, D.; Riesco-Miranda, L.; Escoté-Llobet, S.; Jiménez-Nuño, J.; Fuentes-Pumarola, C.; Serra-Millàs, M. Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Suicidal Behaviour and Relationship with a Nurse-Led Suicide Prevention Programme. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2020, 17, 8765.
Pons-Baños, J.; Ballester-Ferrando, D.; Riesco-Miranda, L.; Escoté-Llobet, S.; Jiménez-Nuño, J.; Fuentes-Pumarola, C.; Serra-Millàs, M. Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Suicidal Behaviour and Relationship with a Nurse-Led Suicide Prevention Programme. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8765.
Pons-Baños, J.; Ballester-Ferrando, D.; Riesco-Miranda, L.; Escoté-Llobet, S.; Jiménez-Nuño, J.; Fuentes-Pumarola, C.; Serra-Millàs, M. Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Suicidal Behaviour and Relationship with a Nurse-Led Suicide Prevention Programme. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2020, 17, 8765.
Pons-Baños, J.; Ballester-Ferrando, D.; Riesco-Miranda, L.; Escoté-Llobet, S.; Jiménez-Nuño, J.; Fuentes-Pumarola, C.; Serra-Millàs, M. Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Suicidal Behaviour and Relationship with a Nurse-Led Suicide Prevention Programme. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8765.
Abstract
(1) Aims: To analyse the relationship between demographic and clinical characteristics and particular kinds of suicidal behaviour and its relationship with a nurse-led suicide prevention program. (2) Methods: A 5-year cross-sectional study design. Study performed in the region of Osona (Catalonia) during 2013-2017. Suicidal behaviour was classified as suicidal ideation, interrupted self-directed violence, suicide attempt and completed suicide. (3) Results: The sample included 753 patients ─ of whom 53 died by suicide─ and encompassed 931 suicidal behaviour episodes. Men represented 38.4% of the sample but 81.1% of deaths by suicide. Mental disorders were associated with suicidal behaviour in 75.4% of the sample. 66.4% of the individuals were engaged in the nurse-led Suicidal Behaviour Case Management Program, of which 0.8% (n=4) died by suicide. (4) Conclusion: The main risk factors were female sex for suicidal behaviour, and male sex and older age for suicide. Mental disorders, widowhood and retirement were also associated with suicide. A high proportion of patients was engaged to the nurse-led suicide prevention program with a low proportion of suicides.
Keywords
Attempted; Suicide; Mental Disorders; Nursing; Preventive Health Services; Risk Factors; Social Determinants of Health; Suicidal Ideation; Suicide
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Immunology and Allergy
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