ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
When Emergency Patients Die by Suicide: The Experience of Prehospital Health Professionals.
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- Typologies of suicidality and suicide presenting to a prehospital South African Emergency Medical Service: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis.F1000Research · 2025Article
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- Editorial: Emergency in Psychiatry-The Various Facets of Behavioral Emergencies, Crises, and Suicidality.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
The suicide of a patient can be a disturbing experience for health professionals. According to literature, a patient suicide is a professional hazard in the path of prehospital emergency professionals. In the emergency context, several factors pointed out in literature as predictors of increased emotional impact and more severe traumatic reactions are present. However, the impact of patient suicide on prehospital emergency professionals is still an understudied subject. The aim of this study was to better understand the impact and emotional reactions of prehospital emergency professionals facing a patient suicide, using a qualitative approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 prehospital professionals. Fourteen narratives about a patient suicide experience were obtained. Three main categories emerged from the process of content analyses: (1) emotional impact and related factors; (2) perceptions of impact; (3) emergency context and professional growing. Death by suicide in the prehospital emergency context had a considerable emotional impact on these professionals. Several participants described intrusive thoughts and images as a consequence of attending to the death scene. Regarding the perception of impact, there seemed to exist a variation between the levels of
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