Suicide Risk Assessment and Management: Real-World Experience and Perceptions of Emergency Medicine Physicians.
To examine gaps in effective self-directed violence risk assessments by emergency medicine physicians. Four focus groups (N = 16 physicians) were conducted, followed by thematic analysis. Eight themes were identified in 1,293 coded passages. Participants discussed the practical ways they deal with the challenges of assessing and managing self-directed violence in low-resource settings. Emergency medicine physicians find mechanistic suicide screenings problematic, especially when intervention options are scarce; they find patient rapport, clinical experience, and corroboration from colleagues to be valuable in addressing the complex challenges of suicide risk assessment and management.
Writtika
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Roy
Kimberly
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Roaten
Dana
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Downs
Fuad
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Khan
David E
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Pollio
Carol S
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6032-5323
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North
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians; D036301:Qualitative Research; D018570:Risk Assessment; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
emergency medicine physicians; emergency psychiatry; focus groups; qualitative analysis; self-directed violence; suicide risk assessment