Oncology healthcare professionals’ perceptions, explanatory models, and moral views on suicidality

Granek, Leeat; Nakash, Ora; Ariad, Samuel; Shapira, Shahar; Ben‐David, Merav

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“…We hope this might contribute to closing the gaps concerning the knowledge of suicidality in oncology. 24 The results are meant to complement the ndings regarding exposure to suicidality in HCPs working with cancer patients. 6 The majority of HCPs can understand the wish of cancer patients to die or seek help from an ASO under certain circumstances.…”

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“…36 A further study investigated how HCPs perceive suicidality in patients with cancer. 24 HCPs explanatory models of suicide in their patients can be grouped into four categories: Biological disease, mental illness, aberration, and impulsive act. Although, it was not speci cally investigated, it seems likely, that understandable reasons for suicide given by HCPs are associated with the attitudes they hold.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Only three studies focus on HCPs working in oncology. [24][25][26] None of those studies investigated the attitude-behavior relationship. Relevant behavior in this case being treatment and care.…”

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“…The nature and extent of this association remains widely unknown as do other factors in uencing how HCPs deal with suicidality in cancer patients. 24 Building on the research on exposure to suicidality 6 , we focused on the attitudes and opinions of HCPs of different occupational groups working with oncological patients. Attitude towards suicide was conceptualized as the extent to which HCPs understand why a patient would commit suicide and seek help from an assisted suicide organization (ASO).…”

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“…It is important to have more information on factors in uencing how HCPs interact with and react to suicidal patients. This study aimed at closing the existing gaps in knowledge in this area of oncology 24 and thereby contribute to build a groundwork on which to model future educational and preventative strategies that can be used and employed by HCPs. We particularly explored the following topics:…”

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Attitudes And Opinions Towards Suicidality In Professionals Working With Oncology Patients: Results From An Online Survey

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Objective: To explore and describe attitudes and opinions towards suicidality in healthcare professionals (HCP) working with oncological patients.Methods: A 48-item online questionnaire was developed and distributed to HCPs working with cancer patients. Three hundred fifty-four answered questionnaires were analyzed.Results: The majority of HCPs reported that they were able to understand why a cancer patient would commit suicide (87.8%) or would seek help from an assisted suicide organization (ASO; 83.9%). Understandable reasons were pain and physical impairments (34.7%), social isolation (13.4%), loss of control and autonomy (12.2%), terminal disease (11.6%), loss of meaning (10.3%), desperation (9.9%), and psychic distress (6.3%). Personal experiences with suicidality lead only 44.8% of HCPs to believe that thereby they would be better able to understand a patients’ wish for suicide. Religion was negatively associated with understanding of suicide and why a cancer patient would seek help from an ASO. Knowledge of suicidality was positively associated with why a cancer patient would seek help from an ASO.Conclusions: There is still little knowledge in oncology about the relation of HCPs’ attitudes toward suicidality in their patients and how those attitudes influence their behavior, especially care and treatment of patients. More research on this topic is needed. It stands to reason that more education about suicidality in cancer patients seems likely to improve understanding and attitudes and thereby influence care for cancer patients.

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confidence: 90%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Attitudes And Opinions Towards Suicidality In Professionals Working With Oncology Patients: Results From An Online Survey

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Fettel

2021

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Attitudes and opinions towards suicidality in professionals working with oncology patients: results from an online survey

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Maiwurm

Fettel

2021

Support Care Cancer

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Objective To explore and describe attitudes and opinions towards suicidality in healthcare professionals (HCPs) working with oncological patients. Methods A 48-item online questionnaire was developed and distributed to HCPs working with cancer patients. Three hundred fifty-four answered questionnaires were analyzed. Results The majority of HCPs reported that they were able to understand why a cancer patient would commit suicide (87.8%) or would seek help from an assisted suicide organization (ASO; 83.9%). The understandable reasons were pain and physical impairments (51.4%), social isolation (19.8%), loss of control and autonomy (18.1%), terminal disease (17.2%), loss of meaning (15.3%), desperation (14.7%), and psychic distress (9.3%). Personal experiences with suicidality lead only 44.8% of HCPs to believe that thereby they would be better able to understand a patients’ wish for suicide. Religion was negatively associated with understanding of suicide and why a cancer patient would seek help from an ASO. Knowledge of suicidality was positively associated with why a cancer patient would seek help from an ASO. Conclusions There is still little knowledge in oncology about the relation of HCPs’ attitudes toward suicidality in their patients and how those attitudes influence their behavior, especially care and treatment of patients. More research on this topic is needed. It stands to reason that more education about suicidality in cancer patients seems likely to improve understanding and attitudes and thereby influence care for cancer patients.

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Prevalence and risk factors for suicidality in cancer patients and oncology healthcare professionals strategies in identifying suicide risk in cancer patients

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Nakash

2020

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Purpose of review The aim of this study was to summarize the literature on prevalence and risk factors for suicidality in cancer patients and to document the research on oncology healthcare professionals’ strategies in identifying this risk. Recent findings Cancer patients exhibit increased risk of suicidality compared with the general population. Various risk factors have been identified including sociodemographic factors such as poverty, being male and elderly as well as disease-related attributes such as cancer type and stage. The literature on how healthcare professionals identify suicide risk is sparse. Ten articles were found that focused on two main themes. These included information on systematic strategies in identifying suicide risk and factors that affect healthcare professionals’ ability to identify risk in their patients. Summary Although there is an immense amount of literature documenting the problem of suicidality among patients, the research on how healthcare professionals identify and respond to these indications in patients is nearly nonexistent. Cancer centres should implement standardized and systematic screening of cancer patients for suicidality and research on this patient population should collect and report these data. Ongoing training and education for healthcare professionals who work in the oncology setting on how to identify and respond to suicide risk among cancer patients is urgently needed.

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Oncology healthcare professionals’ perceptions, explanatory models, and moral views on suicidality

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References 39 publications

Attitudes And Opinions Towards Suicidality In Professionals Working With Oncology Patients: Results From An Online Survey

Attitudes And Opinions Towards Suicidality In Professionals Working With Oncology Patients: Results From An Online Survey

Attitudes and opinions towards suicidality in professionals working with oncology patients: results from an online survey

Prevalence and risk factors for suicidality in cancer patients and oncology healthcare professionals strategies in identifying suicide risk in cancer patients

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