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Oncologists, oncology nurses and oncology social workers experiences with suicide: impact on patient care
Leeat Granek1, Ora Nakash2, Shahar Shapira3
1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, School of Health Policy and Health Management, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Objective:
To explore how oncology healthcare workers' (HCPs) personal experiences with suicide impacts their practice with cancer patients.
Design:
The study was designed using Grounded Theory strategies in data collection and analysis.
Participants:
Eighteen social workers, 23 oncologists, and 20 nurses, participated in the research.
Methods:
Themes emerged from systematic line-by-line coding of the interview transcripts.
Findings:
HCPs reported that personal experiences with suicide: impacted the way they communicated with patients about suicide; made them vigilant about signs of suicidality; and made them aware of specific indicators of this distress.
Conclusions:
HCPs drew a direct line between their experiences with suicide to the ways in which they care for their patients.
Implications:
Increasing HCP awareness of these issues alongside training using evidence-based guidelines for identifying and responding to suicide risk in patients will ensure providing the best quality of care for patients.
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