TY - JOUR
T1 - Suicide Risk Assessment and Management
T2 - Real-World Experience and Perceptions of Emergency Medicine Physicians
AU - Roy, Writtika
AU - Roaten, Kimberly
AU - Downs, Dana
AU - Khan, Fuad
AU - Pollio, David E.
AU - North, Carol S
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Copyright © International Academy for Suicide Research.
PY - 2017/7/3
Y1 - 2017/7/3
N2 - To examine gaps in effective self-directed violence risk assessments by emergency medicine physicians. Four focus groups (N = 16 physicians) were conducted, followed by thematic analysis. Eight themes were identified in 1,293 coded passages. Participants discussed the practical ways they deal with the challenges of assessing and managing self-directed violence in low-resource settings. Emergency medicine physicians find mechanistic suicide screenings problematic, especially when intervention options are scarce; they find patient rapport, clinical experience, and corroboration from colleagues to be valuable in addressing the complex challenges of suicide risk assessment and management.
AB - To examine gaps in effective self-directed violence risk assessments by emergency medicine physicians. Four focus groups (N = 16 physicians) were conducted, followed by thematic analysis. Eight themes were identified in 1,293 coded passages. Participants discussed the practical ways they deal with the challenges of assessing and managing self-directed violence in low-resource settings. Emergency medicine physicians find mechanistic suicide screenings problematic, especially when intervention options are scarce; they find patient rapport, clinical experience, and corroboration from colleagues to be valuable in addressing the complex challenges of suicide risk assessment and management.
KW - emergency medicine physicians
KW - emergency psychiatry
KW - focus groups
KW - qualitative analysis
KW - self-directed violence
KW - suicide risk assessment
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U2 - 10.1080/13811118.2016.1199987
DO - 10.1080/13811118.2016.1199987
M3 - Article
C2 - 27309841
AN - SCOPUS:84982794704
SN - 1381-1118
VL - 21
SP - 365
EP - 378
JO - Archives of Suicide Research
JF - Archives of Suicide Research
IS - 3
ER -