Suicide Risk Assessments: Which Suicide Risk Factors Psychiatric Residents Consider Significant?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients visiting the emergency department (ED) after a suicide attempt are generally assessed for suicide risk by psychiatric residents. Psychiatric residents' competence in evaluating the risk posed by the patients who attempted suicide is critical to preventing suicide.

Methods

We investigated factors considered important by psychiatric residents when evaluating suicide risk. This study included 140 patients admitted to the ED after attempting suicide. Psychiatric residents rated patients' severity of current and future suicide risk as low/moderate/high using the Brief Emergency Room Suicide Risk Assessment (BESRA). The association between each BESRA variable and level of suicide risk was analyzed.

Results

Many factors were commonly considered important i

SUBMITTER: Wang SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4504913 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature