Topic collection
Research and educational resources about suicide prevention.
Editorial context
Use this Suicide Prevention collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 22 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
A 2017 web survey of 850 Hong Kong nurses found that 44.6% reported workplace violence during the previous year; verbal abuse or bullying was the most common form, and the low response rate limits the precision of the...
Eleven adults interviewed after self-harm in Hong Kong described limited awareness of nearby social services, mixed experiences with follow-up, and the importance of counselling skill and trust. They suggested longer...
In a survey of 112 nursing students, attitudes toward suicide did not predict confidence or skill in helping patients with mental health problems or self-harm; instead, only moderate confidence levels overall pointed...
This 2021 integrative review finds that despite school nurses being well positioned to assess and identify at-risk students, published literature lacks clear evidence linking specific nursing interventions to student...
This is a study protocol, not a results paper, for a cluster randomised controlled trial testing a two-part community participatory intervention against usual care in two Chiangmai, Thailand subdistricts. It targets...
A 2025 study of 35 school nurses across six rural Eastern North Carolina districts found that nurse-inclusive suicide prevention protocols help nurses fulfill their preventive role, but practice varied widely between...
A two-case qualitative study finds that when schools exclude nurses from communication and collaboration around at-risk students, it limits nurses' suicide-prevention role and contributes to moral distress, with...
A 28-day feasibility study found that EMA text-message surveys combined with a wearable actigraphic device were largely feasible for monitoring suicidal ideation in 20 community-dwelling adults, with 82.05% average EMA..
This reflective case paper traces Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing's 40-year journey from a community college to a full university, describing how faculty built a culture of scholarship using Boyer's four...
Story Based Learning (SBL) is a Canadian-developed nursing teaching model that blends narrative pedagogy, case method teaching, and problem-based learning into a circular, six-phase process for working through practice..
A Canadian qualitative study of 23 adults with diabetes found that inconsistent messaging from providers and workplaces, and patients' own tendency to psychologically distance themselves from their disease, both...
A VA Center of Innovation (THRIVE) mission document describing research to improve long-term services and supports, equity, and independence for aging Veterans through a Learning Health System model; it states goals...
An NIMH-funded K08 proposal to study, longitudinally, how stress, work environment, hair-cortisol biomarkers, and epigenetics relate to suicide risk in nurses, a population cited at nearly double the general-population..
A funded proposal for a stepped-wedge cluster RCT of MAP-VA, a Montessori-based person-centered care toolkit for VA Community Living Center Veterans with dementia and serious mental illness; pilot signals are...
A think-aloud study built a five-stage cognitive learning model of how nurses develop clinical reasoning from novice to expert.
A small qualitative study found nursing and pharmacy students valued interprofessional simulation and shed stereotypes about each other.
School nurses face escalating job demands driven by increasing student health complexity, chronic condition management, and expanding public health responsibilities. Often serving as the sole healthcare professional...
This study found that Emotional Schema Therapy (EST) and differentiation training both reduced emotional divorce among women. EST was more effective than differentiation training in lowering ED rates, with significant...
This study found significant links between perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas, attachment styles, self-esteem, and body image concerns among female cosmetic surgery applicants. A model where self-esteem mediates...
This study found that pregnant women who listened to relaxing music experienced less life distress and stronger maternal-fetal attachment than a control group. The intervention involved twelve 45-50 minute sessions of...
This study found that nurses at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital had good knowledge of Failure to Rescue but moderate competence in averting it. Crucially, there was a significant link between positive...
This study found anxious-avoidant attachment styles predict higher emotional divorce in Iranian women, while spiritual intelligence predicts lower levels. Together, these factors explained significant variance in...
