Quality improvement project (QIP): evaluating a pilot suicide awareness, screening and signposting training intervention for dental care professionals in a dental teaching hospital and school.

ABSTRACT: Scotland's 2022 suicide prevention strategy recommends building skills and knowledge among healthcare staff who play a role in preventing suicide. A quality improvement project (QIP) in relation to this was initiated because several patients attending dental appointments disclosed suicidal thoughts and/or plans to attempt death by suicide. Dental staff and students involved expressed feeling ill-equipped at how to manage this situation. This initial QIP aimed to establish routine screening, identification and signposting of dental outpatients identified as having an increased risk of suicide during attendance at any dental clinic within the Dental Hospital. Several Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles ensued. First, to understand the problem, a scoping literature search on the role of dental pr

SUBMITTER: Cairns D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409345 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature