Clinician profiles of suicide prevention attitudes and confidence and their association with reported suicide prevention practices.

ABSTRACT: Many who die by suicide seek care in general health care settings within a year before death, but only recently has suicide prevention become a core responsibility in these settings. Implementing suicide prevention practices is challenging, and common barriers to adoption include clinician attitudes and self-efficacy. Identifying clinician profiles can further illuminate patterns of suicide prevention practice attitudes and self-efficacy within clinician subgroups to inform implementation strategy selection and development. This study identified distinct clinician profiles of suicide prevention attitudes and confidence and examines their associations with suicide prevention practice delivery to patients. This study also investigated variables that help explain an individual's likelihood of

SUBMITTER: Morena AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12313209 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature