Mental health front-liners: Police officers’ knowledge and attitudes towards suicide in Malta
| Autor: | D. Zammit, M. Bezzina Xuereb |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry, Vol 67, Pp S244-S245 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0924-9338 1778-3585 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.518 |
| Popis: | Introduction Police-officers are in a strategic position of providing the first immediate response to a crisis as mental health frontliners. Objectives In this nation-wide cross-sectional study, we explored knowledge and attitudes towards suicide in the local police force, a crucial first step in the design and implementation of effective suicide prevention programmes. Methods An online, anonymous questionnaire was distributed to all local police-officers (n=2600). It contained questions about their demographics and their experience with suicide while on duty, along with 34 statements from the validated tool Attitudes Towards Suicide (ATTS) (Renberg & Jacobsson. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2003; 33 52-64), scored on a 5-point Likert Scale (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree). Results The sub-scale “Suicide as a right” was positively correlated with “Tabooing” (r (201) = .25, p= |
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