Citation

Cardell R, Horton-Deutsch S. Arch. Psychiatr. Nurs. 1994; 8(6): 366-372.

Affiliation

Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education, Spokane, WA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7847904

Abstract

Psychiatric inpatient suicides have unique characteristics compared with suicides that occur on an outpatient basis. A number of factors play a role in determining whether patients will kill themselves in the hospital. Central to suicide is ambivalence. Several factors influence ambivalence; they include: interactions with professionals, environmental safeguards, biological therapies, and external support as well as the inpatient's perception of these factors. A proposed model is presented as a grounding for further exploration of this process.

Language: en