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- Title
Impact of "+Contigo" training on the knowledge and attitudes of health care professionals about suicide.
- Authors
Santos, José Carlos; Pereira Simões, Rosa Maria; de Azevedo Erse, Maria Pedro Queiroz; Neto Façanha3, Jorge Daniel; Alves Marques, Lúcia Amélia Fernandes
- Abstract
Objectives: to evaluate the results of "+Contigo" training, developed by nurses and directed at 66 health professionals of integrated school health teams in Primary Health Care. Method: quantitative with data collection through the Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire, administered before and after the training. Results: significant increases were observed In suicide prevention knowledge and in changing attitudes of health professionals towards individuals with suicidal behavior. Conclusion: these results allow us to affirm that nurses hold scientific and pedagogical knowledge that grant them a privileged position In the health teams, to develop training aimed at health professionals involved in suicide prevention.
- Subjects
SUICIDE prevention; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CONTINUING education; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL personnel; PROFESSIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; SUICIDE; T-test (Statistics); QUANTITATIVE research; SUICIDAL ideation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2014, Vol 22, Issue 4, p679
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0104-1169.3503.2467