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Maintained Attitudinal Changes in Nursing Personnel After a Brief Training on Suicide Prevention
Author(s) -
Botega Neury J.,
Silva Sidney V.,
Reginato Diogo G.,
Rapeli Claudemir B.,
Cais Carlos F. S.,
Mauro Marisa L. F.,
Stefanello Sabrina,
Cecconi Janaína P.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1521/suli.2007.37.2.145
Subject(s) - feeling , scale (ratio) , psychological intervention , nursing , suicide prevention , medicine , psychology , clinical psychology , poison control , medical emergency , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
Nursing personnel ( N = 317) working at a general hospital attended a 6‐hour training program on suicide prevention. They answered anonymously pre‐and post‐training the Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire (SBAQ), which comprises 21 visual analogue scale items divided in three factorial subscales. The results indicated there were positive changes in the attitudes and these gains were significantly maintained at the 6‐month follow‐up evaluation. Improvement was in the Feelings and Professional Capacity subscales (ANOVA; p = 0.0001 and 0.01, respectively). There was no change on the Right to Suicide subscale. Because attitudes influence the effectiveness of health care personnel interventions, our findings may have important implications for the development of suicide prevention programs.