Prioritizing suicide prevention guideline recommendations in specialist mental healthcare: a Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Delphi technique is a proven and reliable method to create common definitions and to achieve convergence of opinion. This study aimed to prioritize suicide prevention guideline recommendations and to develop a set of quality indicators (QIs) for suicide prevention in specialist mental healthcare.

Methods

This study selected 12 key recommendations from the guideline to modify them into QIs. After feedback from two face-to-face workgroup sessions, 11 recommendations were rephrased and selected to serve as QIs. Next, a Delphi study with the 11 QIs was performed to achieve convergence of opinion among a panel of 90 participants (23 suicide experts, 23 members of patients' advisory boards or experts with experiences in suicidal behavior and 44 mental healthcare pro

SUBMITTER: Setkowski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007653 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature