Gatekeeper Suicide Training's Effectiveness Among Malaysian Hospital Health Professionals: A Control Group Study With a Three-Month Follow-Up
| Autor: | Lena Lay Ling Yeap, Lei Hum Wee, Uma Visvalingam, Suzaily Wahab, Ching Sin Siau, Norhayati Ibrahim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Suicide Prevention medicine.medical_specialty Health Personnel education Control (management) MEDLINE Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pre-tertiary education Self-efficacy Health professionals Group study Teaching Malaysia General Medicine Middle Aged Control Groups Self Efficacy 030227 psychiatry Suicide Family medicine Female Psychology Training program Follow-Up Studies Program Evaluation Month follow up |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 38:227-234 |
| ISSN: | 1554-558X 0894-1912 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/ceh.0000000000000213 |
| Popis: | There is a lack of suicide-related training in the nonpsychiatric health professional's basic education. We suggest that a continuing education through a brief gatekeeper suicide training program could be a suitable platform to improve suicide-related knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitudes. This study aimed at examining the effectiveness of the Question, Persuade, Refer gatekeeper program on improving the knowledge, self-efficacy in suicide prevention, and understanding of/willingness to help suicidal patients of Malaysian hospital health professionals.The Question, Persuade, Refer program materials were translated and adapted for implementation in the hospital setting for nonpsychiatric health professionals. There were 159 (mean age = 35.75 years; SD = 12.26) participants in this study. Most participants were female (84.9%), staff/community nurses (52.2%), who worked in the general medical department (30.2%) and had no experience managing suicidal patients (64.2%). Intervention participants (n = 53) completed a survey questionnaire at pretraining, immediately after training, and after three months. Control participants (n = 106) were not exposed to the training program and completed the same questionnaire at baseline and three months later.Significant improvement occurred among intervention participants in terms of perceived knowledge, self-efficacy, and understanding of/willingness to help suicidal patients immediately after training and when compared with the control participants 3 months later. Improvements in declarative knowledge were not maintained at the 3-month follow-up.This study confirmed the short-term effectiveness of the gatekeeper training program. Gatekeeper suicide training is recommended for implementation for nonpsychiatric health professionals nationwide. |
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