Associations of training to assist a suicidal person with subsequent quality of support: results from a national survey of the Australian public

BMC Psychiatry
Anthony F JormNicola J Reavley

Abstract

When a person is in severe distress, people in their social network can potentially take action to reduce the person's suicide risk. The present study used data from a community survey to examine whether people who had received training in how to assist a person at risk of suicide had higher quality intentions and actions to provide support. A national telephone survey was carried out with 3002 Australian adults on attitudes and intentions toward helping someone in severe distress or at risk of suicide as well as actions taken. Participants were asked about their intentions to assist a hypothetical person in a vignette and about any actions they took to assist a family member or friend in distress over the previous 12 months. Participants were also asked whether they had received professional training, Mental Health First Aid training or other training in how to assist a person at risk of suicide. Responses covered ten intentions/actions that were recommended in guidelines for the public on how to support a suicidal person and 5 that were recommended against in the guidelines. Scales were created to measure positive and negative intentions to act and positive and negative actions taken. All three types of training were associat...Continue Reading

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Jul 25, 2019·Suicide & Life-threatening Behavior·Angela NicholasNicola Reavley
Jul 28, 2020·Archives of Suicide Research : Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research·Christine PolihronisMario Cappelli
Nov 3, 2020·Death Studies·Said DadaševEglė Mažulytė-Rašytinė
Dec 15, 2020·The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry·Anthony F Jorm
Aug 5, 2021·Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association·Sarah ForthalSabrina Hermosilla

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