ArticleThe journal of behavioral health services & research2012
Predictors of primary care physicians' self-reported intention to conduct suicide risk assessments.
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- Systematic Review: Association Between Physicians' Clinical Experience and Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Raising Suicide in Medical Appointments-Barriers and Facilitators Experienced by Young Adults and GPs: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Anxiety is associated with increased risk of suicidality in Parkinson's disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Medico-Legal Events Resulting from Attempted Suicide by Patients in Care: Facteurs associés aux événements médico-légaux résultant de tentatives de suicide de patients en soins.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- Partnering with Policymakers to Design Suicide Care Research: Maximizing Impact in Adolescent Mental Health Policy.Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health · 2025Article
- Practitioners' perspective: a mixed-methods study on dealing with suicidality from the perspective of oncological healthcare professionals.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2025Article
- Recognising and Responding to Suicide-Risk Factors in Primary Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- Examination of medical student and physician attitudes towards suicide reveals need for required training.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Suicide risk assessment fears, attitudes and behaviours of lifeline crisis supporters.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Suicide-Related Knowledge and Attitudes among a Sample of Mental Health Professionals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- From Screening to Interventions: Teaching Clinical Suicide Prevention Skills to Medical Students.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2021Article
- Épidémiologie descriptive du risque suicidaire dans le système médical français de médecine générale.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2021Article
- Health Risk Assessments in Michigan's Medicaid Expansion: Early Experiences in Primary Care.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Health Care Resources and Mental Health Service Use Among Suicidal Adolescents.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2017Article
- Identifying Risk for Suicide.Health & social work · 2016Article
- The Impact of Knowledge of Suicide Prevention and Work Experience among Clinical Staff on Attitudes towards Working with Suicidal Patients and Suicide Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- Medical care expenditure in suicides from non-illness-related causes.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2014Article
- National pathways for suicide prevention and health services research.American journal of preventive medicine · 2014Review
- Health care contacts in the year before suicide death.Journal of general internal medicine · 2014Article
- Particular difficulties faced by GPs with young adults who will attempt suicide: a cross-sectional study.BMC family practice · 2013Article
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Abstract
Primary care physicians play a significant role in depression care, suicide assessment, and suicide prevention. However, little is known about what factors relate to and predict quality of depression care (assessment, diagnosis, and treatment), including suicide assessment. The authors explored the extent to which select patient and physician factors increase the probability of one element of quality of care: namely, intention to conduct suicide assessment. Data were collected from 404 randomly selected primary care physicians after their interaction with CD-ROM vignettes of actors portraying major depression with moderate levels of severity. The authors examined which patient factors and physician factors increase the likelihood of physicians' intention to conduct a suicide assessment. Data from the study revealed that physician-participants inquired about suicide 36% of the time. A random effects logistic model indicated that several factors were predictive of physicians' intention to conduct a suicide assessment: patient's comorbidity status (odds ratio (OR) = 0.61; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.37-1.00), physicians' age (OR = 0.67; 95% CI = 0.49-0.92), physicians' race (OR = 1.84; 95% CI = 1.08-3.13), and how depressed the physician perceived the virtual patient to be (OR = 0.58; 95% CI = 0.39-0.87). A substantial number of primary care physicians in this study indicated they would not assess for suicide, even though most physicians perceived the virtual patient to be depressed or very depressed. Further study is needed to establish factors that may be modified and targeted to increase the likelihood of physicians' providing one element of quality of care--suicide assessment--for depressed patients.
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