Caring stress, suicidal attitude and suicide care ability among family caregivers of suicidal individuals: a path analysis

Chiang, Chun‐Ying; Lu, Chu-Yun; Lin, Yu-Hua; Lin, Hsueh-Chun; Sun, Fan‐Ko

doi:10.1111/jpm.12267

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“…A suicide care education intervention improves the family caregivers’ ability to provide care and their attitudes towards the suicidal person [ 36 ]. Several interventions or approaches such as “Creativity, Optimism, Planning and Expert information” (COPE [ 9 ]) may help significant others to enhance their coping strategies [ 7 ].…”

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“…According to scientific literature, being a relative or friend to a suicidal person or suicide attempter is a particularly difficult and distressing experience, which impacts on emotional and physical health [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. Indeed, this situation requires considerable emotional and practical involvement from relatives and friends and is, in most cases, experienced as a burden [ 9 , 10 , 11 ], especially when a suicidal person or suicide attempter’s social network is scarce [ 12 ] and support or cooperation with professionals is insufficient [ 9 , 13 ].…”

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Help-Seeking in Suicidal Situations: Paramount and yet Challenging. Interactions between Significant Others of Suicidal Persons and Health Care Providers

Dransart

Guerry

2017

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Significant others are often crucial for suicidal persons or suicide attempters’ access to care, yet little is known about their efforts to seek help. This article presents the findings of a qualitative pilot study carried out in Switzerland on the help-seeking process of 18 significant others, their perception of the care received by their loved one, and the interactions and collaboration they experienced with professionals. Most significant others repeatedly sought out support for their loved one and themselves. The help-seeking process seemed mostly difficult, was seldom successful on the first attempt, and was filled with multiple difficulties, such as availability and continuity of care and cooperation issues with professionals. Two-thirds of participants were not satisfied with the care provided to their loved ones and half of them faced challenges in their cooperation with professionals, i.e., poor sharing of information or not being acknowledged as partners or supported by professionals. Based on their experience, providing education about suicidal crises and care programs to significant others might lighten their burden and improve their cooperation with professionals, who in turn may benefit from training in communication issues and specific methods of cooperation with significant others in suicidal situations.

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Help-Seeking in Suicidal Situations: Paramount and yet Challenging. Interactions between Significant Others of Suicidal Persons and Health Care Providers

Dransart

Guerry

2017

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“…In a study of suicidal attitude, the researchers focused on attitudes toward suicide. At the same time, the family caregivers (such as family members of suicide) are an important link to reduce the number of suicides ( Chiang et al, 2015 ). The study put forward H2 and H3 as follows.…”

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The Relationship Between Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Core Self-Evaluation of College Students: The Mediation Effects of Suicidal Attitude

Zhao

Shi

2018

Front. Psychol.

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This study analyzed the mediation effect of a suicidal attitude from regulatory emotional self-efficacy to core self-evaluation. A measurement study was conducted among 438 college students using the Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale, the Core Self-Evaluation Scale, and the Suicide Attitude Questionnaire. Results from the plug-in process in SPSS and the bootstrap method showed that the attitude toward suicidal behavior and the attitude toward family members of an individual who has committed suicide played a double-mediation role, from perceived self-efficacy in managing happiness to core self-evaluation. The results also showed that the attitude toward a person who committed suicide or attempted suicide played a mediation effect from perceived self-efficacy in managing curiousness to core self-evaluation. This research has great significance for improving the understanding of college students’ sense of happiness and prevention for self-evaluation.

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“…When suicidal persons receive psychiatric care, mental health nurses should support relatives as a resource for the patient (Barker & Buchanan-Barker, 2011; Cutcliffe, Stevenson, Jackson, & Smith, 2006; Talseth & Gilje, 2011). However, research on how relatives can be supported to contribute in the care of the suicidal person is limited (Chiang, Lu, Lin, Lin, & Sun, 2015; Sun, Chiang, Yu, & Lin, 2013), compared with research considering the role of professional caregivers in identifying and managing risk to self (Hawton, 2016; Herron, Ticehurst, Appleby, Perry, & Cordingley, 2001). There is some research considering relatives’ experiences of participation in the care suicidal family members receive from psychiatric inpatient care.…”

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To be present, share and nurture: a lifeworld phenomenological study of relatives’ participation in the suicidal person’s recovery

Sellin

Asp

Kumlin

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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In today’s health care, participation is acknowledged as important. However, there is limited research on how relatives of patients at risk of suicide experience their opportunities to participate in care during periods when their close ones are subject to inpatient care. The aim of this study was to describe the phenomenon of participation, as experienced by relatives of persons who are subject to inpatient psychiatric care due to a risk of suicide. The study was conducted through a reflective lifeworld research (RLR) approach, based on phenomenological philosophy. Eight relatives of patients receiving care from professionals in a psychiatric specialist health care context in Sweden participated in phenomenon-oriented interviews. Data were analysed to elucidate a meaning structure of the phenomenon. The findings show that the phenomenon of participation was more associated with patients’ recovery processes than with the caring process, and means “being actively involved in a process in which the person regains the desire to live”. The meaning of participation is further described by its meaning constituents: struggling for being able to be present for the person at risk of suicide, being able to share everyday life, and nurturing sources for vitality. These insights into the meaning of participation highlight the importance of allowing supportive relatives to be a part of the patient’s life, while the person is cared for in an inpatient hospital setting. Thus, participation enables relatives to be acknowledged as resourceful human beings in the patient’s recovery process, and thereby facilitates a sense of being able to manage and share life itself together with the person. This means that mental health nurses need to recognize individual variations of relatives’ participation processes, and take on the responsibility of acknowledging relatives’ lifeworlds.

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Caring stress, suicidal attitude and suicide care ability among family caregivers of suicidal individuals: a path analysis

Cited by 19 publications

References 30 publications

Help-Seeking in Suicidal Situations: Paramount and yet Challenging. Interactions between Significant Others of Suicidal Persons and Health Care Providers

Help-Seeking in Suicidal Situations: Paramount and yet Challenging. Interactions between Significant Others of Suicidal Persons and Health Care Providers

The Relationship Between Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Core Self-Evaluation of College Students: The Mediation Effects of Suicidal Attitude

To be present, share and nurture: a lifeworld phenomenological study of relatives’ participation in the suicidal person’s recovery

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