Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
PLoS One. 2021 Apr 30;16(4):e0251038. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251038. eCollection 2021.
Exposure to suicide is a major factor for suicidality. Mental health professionals and first responders are often exposed to suicide while on-duty. The objective of this scoping review is to describe the state of current research on exposure to suicide among mental health professionals and first responders, focusing on the prevalence and impact of exposure to suicide, and to identify current gaps in the literature. We searched MEDLINE, Scopus, PsychNET, and Web of Science and identified 25 eligible papers. Between 31.5-95.0% of professionals had been exposed to suicide. Exposure to suicide had impacts on personal life, professional life, and mental health; and caused emotional distress. There was little research investigating exposure to suicide among police officers, firefighters, and paramedics. More research existed on mental health professionals, but none assessed exposure to suicide as a risk for suicide amongst this group. The review concludes that exposure to suicide is distressing for mental health professionals, and likely to be for first responder however, more research on these groups, especially paramedics, is required.
接触自杀是自杀倾向的一个主要因素。心理健康专业人员和急救人员在值班时经常会接触到自杀。本次范围综述的目的是描述目前关于心理健康专业人员和急救人员接触自杀的研究状况，重点是接触自杀的普遍性和影响，并确定文献中的当前差距。我们搜索了 MEDLINE、Scopus、PsychNET 和 Web of Science，并确定了 25 篇合格的论文。在专业人员中，有 31.5-95.0%接触过自杀。接触自杀对个人生活、职业生活和心理健康产生影响，并导致情绪困扰。很少有研究调查警察、消防员和护理人员接触自杀的情况。关于心理健康专业人员的研究较多，但没有一项研究评估接触自杀是否会增加该群体自杀的风险。综述得出的结论是，接触自杀对心理健康专业人员来说是痛苦的，对急救人员来说也可能是痛苦的，但需要对这些群体进行更多的研究，尤其是护理人员。
