Formal and Informal Help During the Year After a Suicide Attempt: a One-Year Follow-Up

Cedereke, Marie; Öjehagen, Agneta

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“…This is contrary to findings from high income countries, in which the need of support from the community has been showed to be more important than from the family [10]. This could be explained by the differences in supply of services between low, middle income and rich countries.…”

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Suicide attempt in a rural area of Vietnam: Incidence, methods used and access to mental health care

Nguyen

Dalman

et al. 2010

Int J Ment Health Syst

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ObjectivesThe study aims to determine the incidence of suicide attempt, describe the methods used, and assess use of health care services including mental health care after suicide attempt in a rural area of Vietnam.MethodsAll suicide attempters (104) during 2003-2007 were listed, diagnosed and re-evaluated by trained physicians according to the research criteria of the WHO Multicentre Study of Attempted Suicide. All attempters were interviewed by trained medical staff to investigate methods used, socio-demographic characteristics and use of health services.ResultsThe yearly incidence was 10.2 per 100000 person-years, 10.6 per 100000 in males and 9.8 per 100000 in females. 99% of cases committed suicide attempt by poisoning, 62.6% by pesticides and 36.3% by pharmaceutical drugs. 34.3% reported having been in contact with somatic care and 13.2% had received mental health care. Among those who reported some treatment received, 47.5% had been in contact with official health care services, 8.1% had pharmacy keepers' consultation or were treated by traditional healers and 4% reported self treatment.ConclusionThe incidence of suicide attempt was lower in this population compared to other settings. While the majority of attempters use pesticides, many had used psychotropic drugs. Contact with mental health services following the attempt was very limited in this setting. Suicide prevention for this high risk group should focus on reducing access to pesticides and psychotropic drugs. Mental health services should be made more accessible in rural areas.

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Suicide attempt in a rural area of Vietnam: Incidence, methods used and access to mental health care

Nguyen

Dalman

et al. 2010

Int J Ment Health Syst

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“…Needs assessment is a key issue as it relates to both service planning and treatment [10]. From an epidemiological perspective, needs assessments facilitate the planning, provision and evaluation of mental health services required to adequately serve a population within a specific territory [11].…”

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“…From an epidemiological perspective, needs assessments facilitate the planning, provision and evaluation of mental health services required to adequately serve a population within a specific territory [11]. For case managers and caregivers, needs assessments complete the clinical evaluation and are useful to plan discharge from hospital and draft an adequate intervention care plan [4,10,12]. Ideally, intervention should be tailored to the user's needs [13].…”

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Help received from relatives and services to satisfy needs of adults with severe mental disorders

Fleury¹,

Grenier²,

Bamvita³

2013

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Background: Few studies have considered the impact of demographic and clinical variables on help received respectively from services and relatives to satisfy needs of adults with severe mental disorders (SMD). Purposes: To identify major needs receiving help and, using the Andersen’s Behavioural Model of Health Service Use, to identify and compare predisposing, enabling and need factors associated with help given respectively by services and relatives. Methods: 352 adults with SMD from Montreal (Canada) were interviewed using six standardized instruments. Clinical records were consulted. Multiple linear regression analyses were processed to measure level of help received from relatives and services. Results: Factors significantly associated with help from relatives were: higher number of perceived needs; fewer diagnoses; better community functioning; being younger, and in a conjugal relationship; living autonomously; having social support and better quality of life; and, marginally, being an immigrant. Factors significantly associated with help from services were: higher number of perceived needs, better quality of life, supervised housing, adjustment disorder and schizophrenia. Conclusions: Help overall is insufficient to meet users’ needs. Services are more helpful than relatives, in particular regarding health needs. Comparatively to help from services, help from relatives is associated with predisposing factors like age, marital status and nationality.

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“…This kind of interventions is grouped under "non-health related" domain. Unfortunately, such type of non-health related domains receive very scarce (if not none at all) allocation of healthcare resources (Cedereke & Ojehagen, 2007). This thus helps to explain why the development and implementation of vocational rehabilitation interventions for people with schizophrenia is hindered and so are the outcomes.…”

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Employment as Social Determinant of Mental Health: Does This Public Health Concept Help to Tackle Unemployment Problems in People with Schizophrenia?

Zhang¹,

Tsui²,

Da³

2016

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Employment is one of the important social determinants of mental health and hence social integration. This concept is however not duly recognized and so is its application. It is reasonable to infer this as a partial attribute of the unemployment issues in the rehabilitants with schizophrenia. Public health professionals should collaborate with rehabilitation professionals to advocate in the open job markets the crucial roles of employment as a social determinant in facilitating social integration of people with schizophrenia. Further efforts have to be made to analyze the problems of unemployment in the population of those with schizophrenia with reference to its social determinant nature and other associated issues, and then incorporate it into the agenda for public mental health system.

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Formal and Informal Help During the Year After a Suicide Attempt: a One-Year Follow-Up

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Suicide attempt in a rural area of Vietnam: Incidence, methods used and access to mental health care

Suicide attempt in a rural area of Vietnam: Incidence, methods used and access to mental health care

Help received from relatives and services to satisfy needs of adults with severe mental disorders

Employment as Social Determinant of Mental Health: Does This Public Health Concept Help to Tackle Unemployment Problems in People with Schizophrenia?

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