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General Practitioners' Accounts of Patients Who Have Self-Harmed: A Qualitative, Observational Study.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Role of the GP in the management of patients with self-harm behaviour: a systematic review.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2020Pooled it
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- GPs' experience of difficult decisions in people with dementia who have an acute illness: a qualitative, semi-structured interview study.BJGP open · 2025Article
- Recognising and Responding to Suicide-Risk Factors in Primary Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
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- How is suicide risk assessed in healthcare settings in the UK? A systematic scoping review.PloS one · 2023Article
- Examining drivers of self-harm guideline implementation by general practitioners: A qualitative analysis using the theoretical domains framework.British journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- Healthcare professionals' implementation of national guidelines with patients who self-harm.Journal of psychiatric research · 2020Article
- The social life of self-harm in general practice.Social theory & health : STH · 2020Article
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- The social life of self-injury: exploring the communicative dimension of a very personal practice.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- Role of primary care in supporting older adults who self-harm: a qualitative study in England.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019Article
- When health services are powerless to prevent suicide: results from a linkage study of suicide among men with no service contact in the year prior to death.Primary health care research & development · 2019Article
- Narrative Matters: Self-harm in Britain post-1945: the evolution of new diagnostic category.Child and adolescent mental health · 2017Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe relationship between self-harm and suicide is contested. Self-harm is simultaneously understood to be largely nonsuicidal but to increase risk of future suicide. Little is known about how self-harm is conceptualized by general practitioners (GPs) and particularly how they assess the suicide risk of patients who have self-harmed.
aimsThe study aimed to explore how GPs respond to patients who had self-harmed. In this paper we analyze GPs' accounts of the relationship between self-harm, suicide, and suicide risk assessment.
methodThirty semi-structured interviews were held with GPs working in different areas of Scotland. Verbatim transcripts were analyzed thematically.
resultsGPs provided diverse accounts of the relationship between self-harm and suicide. Some maintained that self-harm and suicide were distinct and that risk assessment was a matter of asking the right questions. Others suggested a complex inter-relationship between self-harm and suicide; for these GPs, assessment was seen as more subjective. In part, these differences appeared to reflect the socioeconomic contexts in which the GPs worked.
conclusionThere are different conceptualizations of the relationship between self-harm, suicide, and the assessment of suicide risk among GPs. These need to be taken into account when planning training and service development.
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