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- Title
Changes in Quality of Life After a Suicide Attempt.
- Authors
Pien, Feng-Chen; Chang, Yue-Cune; Feng, Hsin-Pei; Hung, Pin-Wei; Huang, San-Yuan; Tzeng, Wen-Chii
- Abstract
The aim of this follow-up study was to examine factors related to a suicide attempt within 3 months of a prior attempt. Participants were recruited from a suicide-prevention center. Of 96 suicidal individuals who had participated in the baseline study, only 51 completed all measures at follow-up assessment. Study results showed that suicidal individuals who reattempted suicide during the first 3 months of follow-up care exhibited lower mean scores on all four domains of the brief version of the World Health Organization Quality-of-Life Instrument at follow-up assessment than at baseline. In contrast, individuals who did not reattempt suicide had higher quality-of-life scores across all domains between baseline and 3 months. The reattempt and no-reattempt groups differed significantly in the physical health and environmental domains. These results can be used by nurses to develop their abilities to recognize and prevent suicide reattempts in high-risk groups.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; QUALITY of life; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL correlation; MENTAL depression; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SLEEP; SUICIDAL behavior; TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE regression analysis; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); REPEATED measures design; HUMAN research subjects; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2016, Vol 38, Issue 6, p721
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0193945915620306