@article{ref1,
title="Oncologists, oncology nurses and oncology social workers experiences with suicide: impact on patient care",
journal="Journal of psychosocial oncology",
year="2020",
author="Granek, Leeat and Nakash, Ora and Shapira, Shahar and Ariad, Samuel and Ben-David, Merav A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="<b>Objective:</b> To explore how oncology healthcare workers' (HCPs) personal experiences with suicide impacts their practice with cancer patients.<b>Design:</b> The study was designed using Grounded Theory strategies in data collection and analysis.<b>Participants:</b> Eighteen social workers, 23 oncologists, and 20 nurses, participated in the research.<b>Methods:</b> Themes emerged from systematic line-by-line coding of the interview transcripts.<b>Findings:</b> HCPs reported that personal experiences with suicide: impacted the way they communicated with patients about suicide; made them vigilant about signs of suicidality; and made them aware of specific indicators of this distress.<b>Conclusions:</b> HCPs drew a direct line between their experiences with suicide to the ways in which they care for their patients.<b>Implications:</b> Increasing HCP awareness of these issues alongside training using evidence-based guidelines for identifying and responding to suicide risk in patients will ensure providing the best quality of care for patients.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0734-7332",
doi="10.1080/07347332.2020.1755763",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07347332.2020.1755763"
}