| Abstract [eng] |
Family physicians play an important role in suicide prevention, as they can identify the patient`s risk of suicide and refer the patient for further assistance. However, it is not clear which factors are related to more suitable attitudes toward suicides. Therefore, it is important to analyze family medicine professionals’ attitudes toward suicides and factors related to them. The purpose of this research is to examine family medicine professionals̕ (doctors̕ and residents̕) attitudes toward suicides and relationship between attitudes toward suicides and different personal and professional factors. In total, 90 family medicine professionals from healthcare facilities participated in this study: 84 are females and 6 males with the average age of 45.54. Attitudes Towards Suicide Questionnaire (ATTS) was used to measure attitudes toward suicides. A survey was used to collect the information about various personal and professional factors. The results showed that family medicine residents had higher estimates of suicide acceptability than physicians, but lower estimates of suicide condemnation and unpredictability. A negative correlation was found between the frequency of exposure to suicide in the immediate environmental and estimates of condemning attitude toward suicide. The results revealed that the more frequently physicians encounter the suicidal patient, the more likely they have condemning attitude toward suicide. Estimates of suicide unpredictability of physicians who participated in the training are lower than those who did not, as well as attitudes toward suicide prevention of the physicians who participated in the training are more positive. |
