Evaluation of the effectiveness of a community-based crisis intervention program for people bereaved by suicide

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Visser, Victoria S
Comans, Tracy A
Scuffham, Paul A
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2014
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This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a suicide bereavement support service in reducing adverse health and social outcomes for people bereaved by suicide. Retrospective cross-sectional design, comparing clients of the service with a control group of bereaved people who had not had contact with the program. Participants were assessed on quality of life, psychological distress, suicidality, health care usage, and productivity. Clients have significantly lower levels of suicidality. There was a trend to higher quality of life and lower psychological distress. Clients had slightly higher productivity and lower health ...
View more >This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a suicide bereavement support service in reducing adverse health and social outcomes for people bereaved by suicide. Retrospective cross-sectional design, comparing clients of the service with a control group of bereaved people who had not had contact with the program. Participants were assessed on quality of life, psychological distress, suicidality, health care usage, and productivity. Clients have significantly lower levels of suicidality. There was a trend to higher quality of life and lower psychological distress. Clients had slightly higher productivity and lower health care service usage than the control group, although these differences were not statistically significant. This article demonstrates that an intervention program for people bereaved by suicide can be effective at reducing suicidality and may have a positive effect on other health and social outcomes.
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View more >This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a suicide bereavement support service in reducing adverse health and social outcomes for people bereaved by suicide. Retrospective cross-sectional design, comparing clients of the service with a control group of bereaved people who had not had contact with the program. Participants were assessed on quality of life, psychological distress, suicidality, health care usage, and productivity. Clients have significantly lower levels of suicidality. There was a trend to higher quality of life and lower psychological distress. Clients had slightly higher productivity and lower health care service usage than the control group, although these differences were not statistically significant. This article demonstrates that an intervention program for people bereaved by suicide can be effective at reducing suicidality and may have a positive effect on other health and social outcomes.
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Journal Title
Journal of Community Psychology
Volume
42
Issue
1
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© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Evaluation of the effectiveness of a community-based crisis intervention program for people bereaved by suicide, Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 42(1), 2014, pp. 19-28, which has been published in final form at dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21586.
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Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Psychology