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Table 2 Willing and understanding attitudes towards suicidal patients (USP)

From: Attitudes towards suicidal behaviour in outpatient clinics among mental health professionals in Oslo

 

CAPn = 100Mean (95% CI)

DPCn = 120Mean (95% CI)

Totaln = 220Mean (95% CI)

p

Women (n = 140)

19.4 (18.3–20.6)

18.1 (17.2–19.0)

18.7 (17.7–19.2)

0.065

Men (n = 77)

18.8 (17.4–20.2)

18.6 (17.4–19.8)

18.7 (17.8–19.6)

0.848

Physicians (n = 32)

18.9 (15.9–21.8)

18.9 (17.0–20.8)

18.9 (17.3–20.4)

0.976

Psychologists (n = 103)

18.5 (17.4–19.7)

18. 3 (17.2–19.4)

18.4 (17.6–19.2)

0.802

Nurses (n = 33)

*

18.1 (16.8–19.4)

18.1 (16.8–19.4)

*

Social workers (n = 23)

20.5 (17.6–23.4)

18.5 (16.4–20.6)

19.6 (17.8–21.4)

0.269

Others (n = 29)

20.2 (18.1–22.3)

17.1 (13.3–21.1)**

19.6 (17.8–21.4)

0.163

Total (n = 220)

19.2 (18.3–20.1)

18.3 (17.6–19.0)

18.7 (18.2–19.3)

0.108

  1. Understanding of Suicidal Patient Scale (USP). CAP: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. DPC: District Psychiatric Centres. * No nurses are employed in CAP. ** Too few to consider. Scale: 11 = positive to 55 = negative. ns = not significant.