van Landschoot Renate, Portzky Gwendolyn, van Heeringen Kees
Unit for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Mar 14;14(3):304. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14030304.
Educational posters are used to enhance knowledge, attitudes and self-confidence of patients. Little is known on their effectiveness for educating health care professionals. As these professionals may play an important role in suicide prevention, the effects of a poster and accompanying evaluation and triage guide on knowledge, self-confidence and attitudes regarding suicidal thoughts and behaviours, were studied in a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial, involving staff from 39 emergency and 38 psychiatric departments throughout Flanders ( = 1171). Structured self-report questionnaires assessed the knowledge, confidence and beliefs regarding suicidal behaviour management, and attitudes. Data were analysed through a Solomon four-group design, with random assignment to the different conditions. Baseline scores for knowledge and provider confidence were high. The poster and accompanying evaluation and triage guide did not have an effect on knowledge about suicide and self-confidence in suicidal behaviour management. However, the poster campaign appeared to be beneficial for attitudes towards suicidal patients, but only among staff from mental health departments that were assigned to the un-pretested condition. Given the limited effects of the poster campaign in the studied population with a relatively high baseline knowledge, the evaluation of this poster as part of a multimodal educational programme in a more heterogeneous sample of health care professionals is recommended.
教育海报用于增强患者的知识、态度和自信心。关于它们对医护人员的教育效果，人们了解甚少。由于这些专业人员在预防自杀方面可能发挥重要作用，因此在一项多中心整群随机对照试验中，研究了一张海报以及随附的评估和分诊指南对有关自杀想法和行为的知识、自信心和态度的影响，该试验涉及整个佛兰德地区39个急诊科和38个精神科的工作人员（n = 1171）。结构化的自我报告问卷评估了有关自杀行为管理的知识、信心和信念以及态度。通过所罗门四组设计对数据进行分析，并随机分配到不同条件。知识和提供者信心的基线分数较高。海报以及随附的评估和分诊指南对自杀知识和自杀行为管理的自信心没有影响。然而，海报宣传活动似乎对对待自杀患者的态度有益，但仅在被分配到未预测试条件的精神卫生部门的工作人员中如此。鉴于在所研究的具有相对较高基线知识的人群中海报宣传活动的效果有限，建议在更多样化的医护人员样本中，将这张海报作为多模式教育计划的一部分进行评估。
