@article{ref1,
title="Nurses attitudes and beliefs to attempted suicide in Southern India",
journal="Journal of mental health",
year="2015",
author="Jones, Steven and Krishna, Murali and Rajendra, Raj Gopal and Keenan, Paul",
volume="24",
number="6",
pages="423-429",
abstract="BACKGROUND: There is growing global interest into the attitudes and clinical management of persons who have attempted suicide. AIMS: The principal purpose was to determine senior nursing staff attitudes towards patients who had attempted suicide from a professional and cultural perspective, which might influence care following hospital admission. The focus concerned nursing staff interactions at a psychological level that compete with physical tasks on general hospital wards. <br><br>METHODS: A qualitative methodology was employed with audio-taped interviews utilising four level data coding. This article reports on a group of 15 nursing staff from a large general hospital in Mysore, Southern India. <br><br>RESULTS: Findings suggested that patient care and treatment is directly influenced by the nurse's religious beliefs within a general hospital setting with physical duties prioritised over psychological support, which was underdeveloped throughout the participant group. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The results allow a series of recommendations for educational and skills initiatives before progressing to patient assessment and treatment projects and cross-cultural comparison studies. In addition, interventions must focus on current resources and context to move the evidence-based suicide prevention forward.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0963-8237",
doi="10.3109/09638237.2015.1019051",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09638237.2015.1019051"
}