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The Impact of Inpatient Suicide on Psychiatric Nurses and Their Need for Support by Chizuko Takahashi; Fuminori Chida; Hikaru Nakamura; Hiroshi Akasaka; Junko Yagi; Atsuhiko Koeda; Eri Takusari; Kotaro Otsuka; Akio Sakai is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background The nurses working in psychiatric hospitals and wards are prone to encounter completed suicides. The research was conducted to examine post-suicide stress in nurses and the availability of suicide-related mental health care services and education. ## Methods Experiences with inpatient suicide were investigated using an anonymous, self-reported questionnaire, which was, along with the Impact of Event Scale-Revised, administered to 531 psychiatric nurses. ## Results The rate of nurses who had encountered patient suicide was 55.0%. The mean Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) score was 11.4. The proportion of respondents at a high risk (≥ 25 on the 88-point IES-R score) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was 13.7%. However, only 15.8% of respondents indicated that they had access to post-suicide mental health care programmes. The survey also revealed a low rate of nurses who reported attending in-hospital seminars on suicide prevention or mental health care for nurses (26.4% and 12.8%, respectively). ## Conclusions These results indicated that nurses exposed to inpatient suicide suffer significant mental distress. However, the low availability of systematic post

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Author

Chizuko Takahashi; Fuminori Chida; Hikaru Nakamura; Hiroshi Akasaka; Junko Yagi; Atsuhiko Koeda; Eri Takusari; Kotaro Otsuka; Akio Sakai

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-244X)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)