Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: April-June | Volume: 6 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 195-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20210436
A Study to Assess the Suicide Risk of Patients Admitted in t Psychiatric Ward with a View to Develop a Guideline for Staff Nurses on the Nursing Care of Patients with Suicide Risk, in a Tertiary Hospital, Kochi
Raveesh Kaimal TV1
1Senior Nursing Officer, AIIMS Bhopal.
ABSTRACT
Background: Everyone in the mental health system may be at one time or the other, at risk for self harm and suicide. This study was done to assess the suicidal risk of patients who are admitted in psychiatric ward of a tertiary care hospital at Kochi, Kerala and to develop a guidelines for suicidal prevention for staff nurses.
Materials and Methods: The research design adopted for this study was non-experimental descriptive design. The sample for the present study consisted of 30 patients who are admitted in psychiatry ward of Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Kochi. The sampling technique used is convenience sampling. The researchers developed a suicide risk assessment scale. The validity and reliability of the tool was tested. The method used in this study was interview with structured questionnaire.
Result: Results shown that 100% did not have suicidal plan as such, but 13.3% of them had death wishes. Majority of the subjects i.e 96.6% had symptoms such as guilt, hopelessness, helplessness, shame, impaired problem solving. In 69%of the subjects there were more than 4 symptoms, 90% of the subjects had significant life events such as financial loss, loss of loved one, love failure, failure in examination, majority of them i.e 74.1% had at least 2 events. History of suicide attempt is seen only in 6.7% of the subjects, 93.3% of them didn’t have any such attempts. Moreover 16.7% of them have family history of suicide and 83,3% of them didn’t have any significant history. There was a significant association between suicidal risk and educational level.
Conclusion: Many patients had expressed the depressive symptoms and also it has been observed that there was a significant association between suicidal risk and educational level. A guideline for suicidal prevention has been distributed to all staff nurses working in the psychiatric ward after getting validated from experts.
Keywords: Suicidal risk, Staff nurses guidelines, psychiatric patients, nursing care of suicidal risk.