Suicide Risk Assessments: Which Suicide Risk Factors Psychiatric Residents Consider Significant?

• 발행기관: 대한신경정신의학회
• 저자명: ShengMin Wang Sunyoung Hwang Bora Yeon KyoungHo Choi Youngmin Oh HaeKook Lee YongSil Kweon ChungTai
• 간행물 정보: 『Psychiatry Investigation』제12권 제3호, 324~329쪽, 전체 6쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 정신과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.07.31

영문 초록

Objective-Patients visiting the emergency department (ED) after a suicide attempt are generally assessed for suicide risk by psychiatric residents. Psychiatric residents’ competence in evaluating the risk posed by the patients who attempted suicide is critical to preventing suicide. Methods-We investigated factors considered important by psychiatric residents when evaluating suicide risk. This study included 140 patients admitted to the ED after attempting suicide. Psychiatric residents rated patients’ severity of current and future suicide risk as low/moderate/high using the Brief Emergency Room Suicide Risk Assessment (BESRA). The association between each BESRA variable and level of suicide risk was analyzed. Results-Many factors were commonly considered important in evaluating the severity of current and future suicide risk. However, the following factors were only associated with future suicide risk: female gender, having no religion, family psychiatric history, history of axis I disorders, having a will, harboring no regrets, and social isolation. Conclusion-Psychiatric residents use diverse factors when assessing suicide risk. Psychiatric residents might put more emphasis on non-modifiable demographic and clinical factors, concrete evidence showing suicide determination, and social isolation to assess the risk of future suicide.

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Suicide Psychiatric residents Risk assessment