Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale

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Autor(a) principal: Botega,Neury José
Data de Publicação: 2005
Outros Autores: Reginato,Diogo Gomes, Silva,Sidney Volk da, Cais,Carlos Filinto da Silva, Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito, Mauro,Marisa Lúcia Fabrício, Cecconi,Janaína Phillipe, Stefanello,Sabrina
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (São Paulo. 1999. Online)
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Resumo: OBJECTIVE: To describe the construction of the Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire (SBAQ) which measures attitudes of nursing personnel towards suicide, and verify attitude differences among these professionals. METHODS: The Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire comprises 21 visual analogue scale items (beliefs, feelings and reactions on suicidal patients) selected from a pool of attitude statements generated by focal groups and experts' judgement. The questionnaire was completed by 317 nursing professionals who worked in a teaching hospital. Factor analysis and internal consistency were calculated. RESULTS: Three interpretable factors were extracted, accounting jointly for 40% of the total variance: Feelings when caring for the patient, Professional Capacity and Right to Suicide, comprising 7, 4 and 5 items, respectively. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients were 0.7, 0.6 and 0.5, respectively. Greater Professional Capacity was reported by nursing assistants and those who had already took care of suicidal patients. The belief that a person does not have the right to commit suicide was stronger among older professionals, those who had never taken care of suicidal patients, those who had a family history of suicide, those who were Protestants and that used to go more frequently to church services. CONCLUSIONS: The Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire proved to be user-friendly and quite a simple instrument to assess attitude towards suicide among nursing personnel.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
title Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
spellingShingle Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
Botega,Neury José
Suicide
Attitudes
Health personnel
Nurse-patient relations
Questionnaires
title_short Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
title_full Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
title_fullStr Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
title_full_unstemmed Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
title_sort Nursing personnel attitudes towards suicide: the development of a measure scale
author Botega,Neury José
author_facet Botega,Neury José
Reginato,Diogo Gomes
Silva,Sidney Volk da
Cais,Carlos Filinto da Silva
Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
Mauro,Marisa Lúcia Fabrício
Cecconi,Janaína Phillipe
Stefanello,Sabrina
author_role author
author2 Reginato,Diogo Gomes
Silva,Sidney Volk da
Cais,Carlos Filinto da Silva
Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
Mauro,Marisa Lúcia Fabrício
Cecconi,Janaína Phillipe
Stefanello,Sabrina
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Botega,Neury José
Reginato,Diogo Gomes
Silva,Sidney Volk da
Cais,Carlos Filinto da Silva
Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
Mauro,Marisa Lúcia Fabrício
Cecconi,Janaína Phillipe
Stefanello,Sabrina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Suicide
Attitudes
Health personnel
Nurse-patient relations
Questionnaires
topic Suicide
Attitudes
Health personnel
Nurse-patient relations
Questionnaires
description OBJECTIVE: To describe the construction of the Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire (SBAQ) which measures attitudes of nursing personnel towards suicide, and verify attitude differences among these professionals. METHODS: The Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire comprises 21 visual analogue scale items (beliefs, feelings and reactions on suicidal patients) selected from a pool of attitude statements generated by focal groups and experts' judgement. The questionnaire was completed by 317 nursing professionals who worked in a teaching hospital. Factor analysis and internal consistency were calculated. RESULTS: Three interpretable factors were extracted, accounting jointly for 40% of the total variance: Feelings when caring for the patient, Professional Capacity and Right to Suicide, comprising 7, 4 and 5 items, respectively. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients were 0.7, 0.6 and 0.5, respectively. Greater Professional Capacity was reported by nursing assistants and those who had already took care of suicidal patients. The belief that a person does not have the right to commit suicide was stronger among older professionals, those who had never taken care of suicidal patients, those who had a family history of suicide, those who were Protestants and that used to go more frequently to church services. CONCLUSIONS: The Suicide Behavior Attitude Questionnaire proved to be user-friendly and quite a simple instrument to assess attitude towards suicide among nursing personnel.
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