A model for assessment of inpatient suicide potential.
Psychiatric inpatient suicides have unique characteristics compared with suicides that occur on an outpatient basis. A number of factors play a role in determining whether patients will kill themselves in the hospital. Central to suicide is ambivalence. Several factors influence ambivalence; they include: interactions with professionals, environmental safeguards, biological therapies, and external support as well as the inpatient's perception of these factors. A proposed model is presented as a grounding for further exploration of this process.
Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education, Spokane, WA.
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D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D017751:Safety Management; D012938:Social Perception; D012944:Social Support; D000092864:Suicide Prevention