Effects of media stories featuring coping with suicidal crises on psychiatric patients: Randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accumulating evidence suggests beneficial effects of media stories featuring individuals mastering their suicidal crises, but effects have not been assessed for psychiatric patients.

Methods

We randomized n = 172 adult psychiatric patients (n = 172, 97.1% inpatients) to read an educative article featuring a person mastering a suicidal crisis (n = 92) or an unrelated article (n = 80) in a single-blind randomized controlled trial. Questionnaire data were collected before (T1) and after exposure (T2) as well as 1 week later (study end-point, T3). The primary outcome was suicidal ideation as assessed with the Reasons for Living Inventory; secondary outcomes were help-seeking intentions, mood, hopelessness, and stigmatization. Differences between patients with affectiv

SUBMITTER: Niederkrotenthaler T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668446 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature