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Table 3 Themes and subthemes

From: Parents’ and medical staff’s experience of adolescents with suicide-related behaviors admitted to a general hospital in China: qualitative study

Themes

Sub-themes

Staff perceive patients with SRBs as difficult to engage

Feelings of helplessness

The need for compassion

Challenges of professional self-efficacy

The recommendations to the health care service

Parents not satisfied with the existing hospital services

Doubt the hospitalization treatment

The advice to the health care service