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

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychiatry, May 2018
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Title
Associations of training to assist a suicidal person with subsequent quality of support: results from a national survey of the Australian public
Published in
BMC Psychiatry, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12888-018-1722-y
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Authors

Anthony F. Jorm, Angela Nicholas, Jane Pirkis, Alyssia Rossetto, Nicola 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 associated with greater positive intentions and actions, and with lesser negative intentions. These associations were largely due to a greater willingness of those trained to talk openly about suicide with a person in distress. Training in how to support a person at risk of suicide is associated with better quality of support. Such training merits wider dissemination in the community.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 66 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Master 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 6%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 26 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 8%
Social Sciences 5 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 6%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 30 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 July 2018.
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#1,379,845
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#419
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#32,200
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychiatry
#15
of 129 outputs
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