@article{ref1,
title="Suicidal feelings and work environment in psychiatric nursing personnel",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="1997",
author="Samuelsson, M. and Gustavsson, J. Petter and Petterson, I. L. and Arnetz, B. and Åsberg, Marie",
volume="32",
number="7",
pages="391-397",
abstract="Suicidal feelings, attempted suicide and aspects of work environment and well-being in Swedish psychiatric nursing personnel were studied using a questionnaire. The questionnaire, containing 190 questions, was mailed to all 242 nurses and attendants working in psychiatric care at the department of psychiatry at Karolinska Hospital. Eighty-one percent (n = 197) returned the questionnaire. Suicidal feelings &quot;last year&quot; were lower than in the general population, but suicidal feeling and attempted suicide &quot;earlier than last year&quot; were much more common, and 13% reported that they had attempted suicide earlier in life. In order to study the possible association between work environment and suicide, a factor analysis was performed. Four factors were extracted and labelled: suicidality, quality of work, negative work environment and burn out/depression. The correlation between the factors suggests that negative work environment is associated with burn out/depression, which in turn is related to suicidality. No direct link was demonstrated between suicidality and work environment, and completed suicide was not investigated. The study provides some indirect evidence that a negative work environment may increase suicidal feelings.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}