@article{ref1,
title="Suicide-preventive activities in psychiatric care: Evaluation of an educational program in suicide prevention",
journal="Nordic journal of psychiatry",
year="2004",
author="Inga-Lill, Ramberg and Danuta, Wasserman",
volume="58",
number="5",
pages="389-394",
abstract="To promote implementation of suicide-preventive activities, the Swedish National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) introduced a 200-h academic, postgraduate educational programme (based on the training-of-trainers model) in suicide prevention. This programme was provided at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, for key persons in psychiatric care. Twenty-nine key persons from 11 psychiatric intervention clinics in Stockholm County attended the first course. Preconditions for implementing suicide-preventive activities were assessed by means of semi-structured interviews with all course participants still working in the intervention clinics (n=10). In all but one of these 10 clinics, a wide range of suicide-preventive activities had been implemented as a result of the NASP course. Activities varied in scope, but the key persons seemed to have succeeded in pinpointing the key elements in suicide prevention - the need for specific knowledge about the suicidal process and for well-defined suicide-preventive routines. However, organizational factors and staff turnover were obstacles to maintaining and making the activities routine. There is a need to strengthen the course participants' formal roles as implementers and encourage the clinical management in their continuous implementation of suicide-preventive activities.",
language="",
issn="0803-9488",
doi="10.1080/08039480410005954",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039480410005954"
}