ReviewPloS one2021
Occupational exposure to suicide: A review of research on the experiences of mental health professionals and first responders.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- To What Extent Does Medical Training Alter Students' Ideas Concerning Suicide?Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Reorienting the Way a Community Mental Health Service Responds to Suicide and Other Serious Incidents.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Developing guidelines for supporting employees disclosing suicidal distress while working: a Delphi expert consensus study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- First responders' experiences and training needs at the scene of a suspected suicide in Ireland: A mixed methods study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Suicide and occupation: spatial patterns in Chapecó (SC) and contextualization of the temporal trend in the national scenario, 2006-2024.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Developing Recommendations to Improve Crisis Line Supports for Public Safety Personnel in Canada: Protocol for a Multimethod National Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Designing Digital Mental Health Support for Paramedics Exposed to Trauma: Qualitative Study of Lived Experiences and Design Preferences.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- Work Exposome and Related Disorders of Firefighters: An Overview of Systematized Reviews.Safety and health at work · 2025Review
- Helping the helpers: mental wellbeing of the funeral professional.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Posttraumatic growth among mental health officers who treat soldiers with non-suicidal self-harm/suicidal behavior: The role of cognitive and personality characteristics.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- The impact of adolescent suicide on professionals in secure residential youth care.Residential treatment for children & youth · 2025Article
- Identifying Witnessed Suicides in National Violent Death Reporting System Narratives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Editorial: The experiences of mental health professionals in psychiatric settings.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Prison and forensic mental health staff after suicides in their care. A narrative review of international and German national evidence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Perceived impact of patients' suicide and serious suicidal attempts on their treating psychiatrists and trainees: a national cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- When Prevention Is Not Enough: The Importance of Postvention After Patient Suicide.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023Article
- What is important to service users and staff when implementing suicide-focused psychological therapies for people with psychosis into mental health services?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Who discovers the firearm suicide decedent: an epidemiologic characterization of survivor-victims.Injury epidemiology · 2022Article
- News reporting of suicide in nurses: A content analysis study.International journal of mental health nursing · 2022Article
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Abstract
Exposure to suicide is a major factor for suicidality. Mental health professionals and first responders are often exposed to suicide while on-duty. The objective of this scoping review is to describe the state of current research on exposure to suicide among mental health professionals and first responders, focusing on the prevalence and impact of exposure to suicide, and to identify current gaps in the literature. We searched MEDLINE, Scopus, PsychNET, and Web of Science and identified 25 eligible papers. Between 31.5-95.0% of professionals had been exposed to suicide. Exposure to suicide had impacts on personal life, professional life, and mental health; and caused emotional distress. There was little research investigating exposure to suicide among police officers, firefighters, and paramedics. More research existed on mental health professionals, but none assessed exposure to suicide as a risk for suicide amongst this group. The review concludes that exposure to suicide is distressing for mental health professionals, and likely to be for first responder however, more research on these groups, especially paramedics, is required.
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