School of Allied Health, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 22;20(1):142. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20010142.
This instrumental case study explored what suicide postvention might offer workplaces using the example of a large metropolitan funeral company. A mixed methods approach was utilized to examine staff experiences with suicide bereavement funerals and responses to a bespoke postvention training package. Staff found funerals due to suicide difficult in terms of communication, engagement and emotionality. These challenges were commonly characterized by increased tension and concern. In the absence of a postvention informed approach, staff had developed individual ways to negotiate the identified challenges of this work. The introduction of a staff-informed postvention training package delivered improvements in staff confidence with communication, understanding and management of the impact of suicide bereavement, and increased willingness to share information about postvention services with families and mourners. The findings indicated that benefits of the training could be extended through organizational governance and integration of supports. The findings are used to inform a model of workplace postvention together with a methodology incorporating staff experience and organizational context.
本仪器案例研究以一家大型大都市殡仪馆为例，探讨了自杀预防可能为工作场所带来的影响。该研究采用混合方法，考察了员工在处理自杀丧礼及对定制后预防培训包的反应方面的经验。员工认为与自杀相关的葬礼在沟通、参与和情感方面存在困难。这些挑战通常表现为紧张和担忧加剧。由于缺乏后预防意识，员工已经开发出了一些个人方法来应对这项工作中遇到的挑战。引入员工知情的后预防培训包后，员工在沟通、理解和管理自杀丧亲的影响方面的信心得到了提高，也更愿意与家属和哀悼者分享后预防服务的信息。研究结果表明，通过组织治理和支持的整合，可以扩大培训的益处。研究结果被用来为工作场所后预防提供一个模型，同时还采用了一种方法，将员工的经验和组织背景纳入其中。
