Current Understandings of Suicide Survivor Issues: Research, Practice, and Plans

Andriessen, Karl; Beautrais, Annette L.; Grad, Onja T.; Brockmann, Elisabeth; Simkin, Sue

doi:10.1027/0227-5910.28.4.211

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“…Several previous studies have demonstrated that performing postvention for the suicide survivors has a positive association with lower post-traumatic symptomatology. 29 30 Furthermore, postvention may prevent acting out of unspoken trauma and suicidality among the potentially bereaved and depressed adolescents exposed to suicide. 31…”

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Five Months Follow-up Study of School-based Crisis Intervention for Korean High School Students Who Experienced a Peer Suicide

Min

Kim

Kim³

et al. 2018

J Korean Med Sci

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BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to examine post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and complicated grief in Korean high school students who experienced a peer suicide.MethodsA total of 956 students were included in the statistical analysis. One week after a peer suicide, a school-based crisis intervention program was conducted. The cohort was followed-up at one week and five months after a peer suicide. The program consists of screening tests, educational sessions, and further interview with psychiatric specialists for the selected group. Screening tests were conducted for all students to measure the Child Report of Post-traumatic Symptoms (CROPS), the post-traumatic stress symptoms (The University of California at Los Angeles post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] reaction index; UCLA-PTSD-RI), the anxiety symptoms (The Korean-Beck Anxiety Inventory; K-BAI), the depressive symptoms (The Korean-Beck Depression Inventory-II; K-BDI-II), and the complicated grief reaction (The Inventory of Complicated Grief; ICG). For statistical analysis, the SPSS Statistics 21.0 program was used.ResultsAt baseline and five months follow-ups, 8.6% and 2.9% of the students showed post-traumatic stress symptoms. At five months follow-up, there was a statistically significant decline in the post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, depression, and complicated grief among the ‘trauma group.’ A higher proportion of the female students showed post-traumatic stress symptoms after the incident of peer suicide than the male students.ConclusionSchool-based crisis intervention helps improvement of trauma-related symptoms. It might be an effective way to prevent suicide spreading among students by alleviating trauma-related symptoms.

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confidence: 99%

Five Months Follow-up Study of School-based Crisis Intervention for Korean High School Students Who Experienced a Peer Suicide

Min

Kim

Kim³

et al. 2018

J Korean Med Sci

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“…Taken together, it is plausible that experience with suicide attempts and willingness to support a family member's decision to request PAS reflect an understanding of how someone could get to a point in their life where death is a favorable outcome, yielding empathy with that person's wishes. However, the suicide survivors in the sample (i.e., individuals having lost someone close to them by suicide) know firsthand the emotional and psychological distress experienced following a suicide (Andriessen, Beautrais, Grad, Brockmann, & Simkin, 2007;Mitchell, Kim, Prigerson, & Mortimer-Stephens, 2004;Grad, 1996) and may not want to burden others with that type of loss, thus rendering them less likely to recommend competence.…”

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What patient and psychologist characteristics are important in competency for physician-assisted suicide evaluations?

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Cramer

Gardner

et al. 2015

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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The practice of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is currently legal in Oregon (Oregon Death With Dignity Act, 1995), Washington (Washington Death With Dignity Act, 2008), and Montana (Baxter v. Montana, 2009). In an effort to identify important characteristics of patients and clinicians involved in evaluations of competence to request PAS, 216 licensed psychologists from Oregon and Montana were surveyed regarding their attitudes toward PAS and their personal and professional experiences with suicide. They were also asked to make a competence decision for a patient requesting PAS based on a case vignette. Cognitive ability, as indicated by a question regarding the importance of cognitive ability and components of competence that rely on reasoning skills, was the only patient factor that significantly predicted competence decisions. Results also suggested that personal characteristics of clinicians, particularly whether someone in their personal life had ever attempted suicide and their willingness to support a family member’s choice of PAS, influence their decision regarding the competence of the patient. Exploratory analyses also revealed that clinicians consider perceived burdensomeness to be of little importance when conducting a competence evaluation for PAS. In all, the largest effects were observed for the experimental vignette condition, clinician personal experience with attempted suicide, and clinician perceived importance of patient MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment–Appreciation scores. The implications of these results are discussed, centering on recommendations for clinicians considering participating in competence evaluations for PAS and future directions for research.

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“…Moreover, the specific nature of bereavement by suicide often makes it difficult for bereaved individuals to seek help. Also, until recently, few resources were readily available (Andriessen et al, 2007). Self-help groups are one means of getting support (Andriessen & Farberow, 2002), but not all people will want to use this form of help or indeed are aware of it.…”

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“…Some content of this report is based, with permission of Hogrefe & Huber, on a report published in Crisis (Andriessen et al, 2007 …”

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Help is at hand for people bereaved by suicide and other traumatic death

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Simkin

Rees³

2008

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Bereavement following suicide is traumatic. Guilt, shame, stigma and feelings of rejection and isolation set it apart from the sadness following other kinds of death and may make it difficult for the bereaved person to obtain help (Harwood et al, 2002; Hawton & Simkin, 2003; Beautrais, 2004). the necessary official processes surrounding death by suicide, like the police and coroner's investigations, can add to the trauma (Biddle, 2003). This may be compounded by inaccurate or insensitive media reporting. Bereaved individuals are at risk of increased morbidity from abnormal grief reactions (Mitchell et al, 2005) and suicide (Qin et al, 2002), and they often need considerable support (de Groot et al, 2006; 2007).

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Current Understandings of Suicide Survivor Issues: Research, Practice, and Plans

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Five Months Follow-up Study of School-based Crisis Intervention for Korean High School Students Who Experienced a Peer Suicide

Five Months Follow-up Study of School-based Crisis Intervention for Korean High School Students Who Experienced a Peer Suicide

What patient and psychologist characteristics are important in competency for physician-assisted suicide evaluations?

Help is at hand for people bereaved by suicide and other traumatic death

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