Citation

Saatchi B, Taghavi Larijani T. Nurs. Open 2019; 6(4): 1438-1445.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/nop2.342

PMID

31660171

PMCID

PMC6805294

Abstract

AIM: To assess the frequency of risk for suicide nursing diagnosis and its related risk factors, in the nursing care provided in psychiatric settings.

DESIGN: This is a descriptive study.

METHODS: The samples were the documented nursing reports. These reports were evaluated and analysed in terms of using the NANDA-I risk for suicide nursing diagnosis and the risk factors related to this diagnosis.

RESULTS: From the 1,440 reports that were reviewed, 10 nursing diagnoses and 478 risk factors, were identified. Based on the results of this study, risk for suicide is used at a very low level in psychiatric settings, while, considerable number of suicide's risk factors are still existing in these settings.

© 2019 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Language: en

Keywords

NANDA‐I nursing diagnosis; psychiatric nursing; risk assessment; risk factors; suicide