How is suicide risk assessed in healthcare settings in the UK? A systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT: A high proportion of people contact healthcare services in the 12 months prior to death by suicide. Identifying people at high-risk for suicide is therefore a key concern for healthcare services. Whilst there is extensive research on the validity and reliability of suicide risk assessment tools, there remains a lack of understanding of how suicide risk assessments are conducted by healthcare staff in practice. This scoping review examined the literature on how suicide risk assessments are conducted and experienced by healthcare practitioners, patients, carers, relatives, and friends of people who have died by suicide in the UK. Literature searches were conducted on key databases using a pre-defined search strategy pre-registered with the Open Science Framework and following the PRISMA exte

SUBMITTER: Fedorowicz SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10045566 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature