Promoting Reasons for Living Within Community Care Environments: A Scoping Review and Ninety‐Four Reasons From Colombia

ABSTRACT Introduction Suicidal behaviour continues to increase worldwide, which makes it necessary to strengthen care environments with strategies complementary to traditional ones, which validate the needs of the people who come to them. The objective was to determine the essential components of strategies that promote reasons to live in care services, and explore these reasons in community care settings in Colombia. Methods A Scoping Review was carried out. In‐depth interviews were also conducted in community care settings with 94 people of multiple ethnicities, from the ages of five to 85, in various regions of Colombia in 2023. Results The components were support for self‐knowledge, emotional regulation, spirituality, recognition of support networks, construction of a life project, confidence in coping strategies, access to care environments, verbalisation of emotions and psychosocial support to ensure basic needs. In the thematic analysis, categories were found such as family, pride in one's own territory, spirituality, purpose and future, details and simple things, work and study, resisting adversity, ancestors, friends, bearing witness to life, the world and others. Conclusions The reasons for living have been proposed as elements of mental health promotion and have been constituted as an element of clinical and psychosocial interventions.