title: Nurses' attitudes and beliefs to attempted suicide in Southern India.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is growing global interest into the attitudes and clinical management of persons who have attempted suicide.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The principal purpose was to determine senior nursing staff attitudes towards patients who had attempted suicide from a professional and cultural perspective, which might influence care following hospital admission. The focus concerned nursing staff interactions at a psychological level that compete with physical tasks on general hospital wards.
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative methodology was employed with audio-taped interviews utilising four level data coding. This article reports on a group of 15 nursing staff from a large general hospital in Mysore, Southern India.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings suggested that patient care and treatment is directly influenced by the nurse's religious beliefs within a general hospital setting with physical duties prioritised over psychological support, which was underdeveloped throughout the participant group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results allow a series of recommendations for educational and skills initiatives before progressing to patient assessment and treatment projects and cross-cultural comparison studies. In addition, interventions must focus on current resources and context to move the evidence-based suicide prevention forward.
authors.affiliation: a Post Graduate Studies Centre, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University , Liverpool , UK .
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: b Epidemiology Research Unit , CSI Holdsworth Memorial Hospital , Mysore , Karnataka , India , and.
authors.forename: Murali
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krishna
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychiatry , Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMCRI) , Mysore , Karnataka , India.
authors.forename: Raj Gopal
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Rajendra
authors.affiliation: a Post Graduate Studies Centre, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University , Liverpool , UK .
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Keenan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D065246:Culturally Competent Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: Mental health; nurses attitudes; pesticide poisoning; self-harm; suicide