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Suicide risk assessment training using an online virtual patient simulation.
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- The effectiveness of multilingual AI-based simulator for suicide risk assessment training in improving self-efficacy among young psychiatrists: a pilot study across twenty languages.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Analysis of Professionals' Perceptions of Suicide in Older Adults Living in Care Homes.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Effectiveness of a virtual patient simulation training on improving provider engagement in suicide safer care.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
- Harnessing Innovative Technologies to Train Nurses in Suicide Safety Planning With Hospital Patients: Formative Acceptability Evaluation of an eLearning Continuing Education Training.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Mental Health Nursing Student's Perception of Clinical Simulation about Patients at Risk of Suicide: A Qualitative Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Computerized Suicide Prevention Clinical Training Simulations: A Pilot Study.Research on social work practice · 2024Article
- Mental Health First Aid crisis role-plays between pharmacists and simulated patients with lived experience: a thematic analysis of debrief.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Virtual Standardized Patients for Mental Health Education.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Study protocol for the implementation and evaluation of the Self-harm Assessment and Management for General Hospitals programme in Ireland (SAMAGH).BMC health services research · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundImproving the identification of and intervention with patients at risk for suicide requires innovative training techniques that safely and effectively teach or enhance practitioners' skills. Virtual patient simulations (VPS) can be particularly effective for this purpose because they allow for repetition in skill building as well as a safe space to practice difficult interactions with patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a novel VPS that trains practitioners in suicide risk assessment, as well as to examine pre-post changes in suicide-related knowledge through a pilot of the VPS training.
methodsPractitioners (n=20) were recruited from a Federally Qualified Health Center in the northeastern United States to test the feasibility and acceptability of a VPS suicide risk assessment training. A paired samples
resultsThe VPS was feasible to implement, with 18 of 20 participants using the VPS for an average of 21 to 95 minutes, and was acceptable to participants, with an average satisfaction rating of 5.82 out of 7. Participants' knowledge scores improved significantly by an average of 1.86 points from pre- to post-training.
conclusionsThe VPS was feasible and acceptable to this sample of practitioners and significantly increased knowledge from pre- to post-training. As such, VPS holds promise as a technique to develop skills in suicide risk assessment.
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