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- Title
Creencias actitudinales sobre la conducta suicida en profesionales sanitarios del área sanitaria de la Costa del Sol Occidental.
- Authors
Guerrero-Díaz, Miguel; Andrade-Conde, Emilio; Peláez-Cherino, Joaquín; Antonio Rodríguez-Montalvo, José; Contreras-Fernández, Eugenio; Rivas-Ruiz, Francisco
- Abstract
Introduction. Suicide continues to be the leading external cause of death in Spain, according to the latest report on deaths by cause of death published by the National Statistics Institute (INE, for its initials in Spanish) in December 20191. According to this report, there were 3,539 deaths by suicide recorded in 2018. Ten people voluntarily ending their lives each day. Málaga province recorded 134 deaths by suicide in 2018, being therefore one of the provinces with the highest incidence in the autonomous community of Andalucía and the eighth nationally. Method. This descriptive, cross-sectional period-prevalence survey of health professionals was carried out in one Málaga Healthcare Area (Spain). The main outcome variable was attitudinal beliefs, which were evaluated using the Questionnaire on Attitudinal Beliefs towards Suicide Behavior (CCCS-18), which includes four factors: legitimization of suicide, suicide in terminating patients, moral dimension and suicide itself, measured with an average response scale of 1 to 7 points, identifying stigmatizing attitudes or beliefs those average scores lower than 3.5. Results. A total of 135 health professionals completed the questionnaire, being 58.5% nurses, 25.9% doctors and 15.6% social health workers. The mean score of the CCCS-18 scale was 3.6 (SD: 1.17) points, finding significant differences depending on the profession (p: 0.043), with a mean 3.22 (SD: 1.17) in physicians, 3.66 (SD: 1.02) in nurses, and 3.99 (SD: 1.52) in social health workers. In analysis by factors, mean scores were found in the sample below 3.5 both in the factor "legitimation of suicide" (mean: 2.59; SD: 1.28), and in the factor "own suicide" (mean: 2, 9; SD: 1.47). Conclusions. The health professionals of the Health Area of the Western Costa del Sol have expressed unfavorable attitudes and beliefs in dimensions related to the legitimation of suicide and suicide itself, with worse attitudes being determined globally in medical professionals.
- Subjects
COSTA del Sol (Spain); SUICIDAL behavior; MEDICAL personnel; SUICIDE prevention; ATTITUDE (Psychology); SOCIAL stigma; PSYCHOEDUCATION; SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology)
- Publication
Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria, 2021, Vol 49, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
1139-9287
- Publication type
Article