@article{ref1,
title="Gatekeeper suicide training's effectiveness among Malaysian hospital health professionals: a control group study with a three-month follow-up",
journal="Journal of continuing education in the health professions",
year="2018",
author="Siau, Ching Sin and Wee, Lei-Hum and Ibrahim, Norhayati and Visvalingam, Uma and Yeap, Lena Lay Ling and Wahab, Suzaily",
volume="38",
number="4",
pages="227-234",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: There is a lack of suicide-related training in the nonpsychiatric health professional's basic education. We suggest that a continuing education through a brief gatekeeper suicide training program could be a suitable platform to improve suicide-related knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitudes. This study aimed at examining the effectiveness of the Question, Persuade, Refer gatekeeper program on improving the knowledge, self-efficacy in suicide prevention, and understanding of/willingness to help suicidal patients of Malaysian hospital health professionals. <br><br>METHODS: The Question, Persuade, Refer program materials were translated and adapted for implementation in the hospital setting for nonpsychiatric health professionals. There were 159 (mean age = 35.75 years; SD = 12.26) participants in this study. Most participants were female (84.9%), staff/community nurses (52.2%), who worked in the general medical department (30.2%) and had no experience managing suicidal patients (64.2%). Intervention participants (n = 53) completed a survey questionnaire at pretraining, immediately after training, and after three months. Control participants (n = 106) were not exposed to the training program and completed the same questionnaire at baseline and three months later. <br><br>RESULTS: Significant improvement occurred among intervention participants in terms of perceived knowledge, self-efficacy, and understanding of/willingness to help suicidal patients immediately after training and when compared with the control participants 3 months later. Improvements in declarative knowledge were not maintained at the 3-month follow-up. <br><br>DISCUSSION: This study confirmed the short-term effectiveness of the gatekeeper training program. Gatekeeper suicide training is recommended for implementation for nonpsychiatric health professionals nationwide.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-1912",
doi="10.1097/CEH.0000000000000213",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CEH.0000000000000213"
}