ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2019
Oncology healthcare professionals' perceptions, explanatory models, and moral views on suicidality.
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- Nursing Care to Reduce Suicide Risk in Cancer Patients: A Narrative Review of the Literature.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Review
- Moderating effects of suicide resilience and meaning in life on the association between entrapment and suicidal ideation in Chinese patients with ovarian cancer: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeTo explore how oncologists, oncology nurses, and oncology social workers perceive suicidality (suicidal ideation, suicidal acts, and completed suicides) in patients with cancer that they are in contact with.
methodsThe grounded theory method of data collection and analysis was used. Sixty-one oncology healthcare professionals from two university-affiliated cancer centers in Israel were interviewed.
resultsThe findings resulted in three main categories that included perceptions of suicidality, explanatory models of suicidality, and moral views on suicide. Healthcare professionals considered suicidality in their patients to be a cry for help, a sign of distress, or an attempt at attention seeking. Participants explained suicidality as stemming from a biological disease, from mental illness, as an aberration, or as an impulsive, irrational act. Moral views on suicidality were split among those who were mostly accepting of these patients' actions versus those who rejected it outright. A third group of healthcare professionals expressed ambivalence about suicidality in their patients.
conclusionsHealthcare professionals vary greatly in their perceptions on suicide. Some view the act as part of a patient's choice and autonomy while others view it negatively. Healthcare providers should receive support in handling patient's suicidality.
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