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Walter K, Wathelet M, Valdenaire S, Grandgenèvre P, Pauwels N, Vaiva G, Notredame CE. A Short Media Training Session Is Effective in Reinforcing Psychiatrists' Communication Skills About Suicide. Front Psychol 2021; 12:733691. [PMID: 34603154 PMCID: PMC8481656 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Because it has been associated with significant increases [through the Werther Effect (WE)] or decreases [through the Papageno Effect (PE)] of suicide rates, media coverage of suicide-related events is recognized as a prevention leverage. Unfortunately, the recommendations that the World Health Organization (WHO) has published to help journalists reporting on suicide remain poorly applied. The Mini Media Training (MMT) is a short media training session designed to increase psychiatrists’ ability to communicate about suicide during interviews. We aimed at assessing the effect of the MMT on psychiatrists’ ability to help journalists complying with the WHO recommendations. From June 2017 to December 2019, 173 physicians and residents in psychiatry were recruited during French national congresses. At baseline (T0) and 1 and 3 months later (T1), participants received the MMT, which consisted in a simulated interview where they we asked to answer a journalist about a mock suicide. Communication skills were measured with a score summing the number of delivered pieces of advice in relation to the WHO recommendations, with a maximum score of 33. A weighted score was also derived based on the degree of directivity needed for the participant to provide these items, again with a possible maximum of 33. A total of 132 psychiatrists participated in the study at T0 and T1. Both the weighted and unweighted score significantly increased from T0 to T1 (d = +2.08, p < 0.001, and d = +1.24, p < 0.001, respectively). Having a history of contacts with journalists, a short professional experience (<3 years) and prior knowledge of the WE, PE, and WHO recommendations were significantly associated with greater unweighted and weighted scores at baseline. The latter two variables also predicted greater T0–T1 improvement of the weighted score. These results suggest that the MMT could be effective for improving the ability of psychiatrists to guide journalists toward more responsible media coverage of suicide. As a short, easy to implement educational activity, the MMT could therefore be considered in association with other measures to help media professionals mitigating the WE and promoting the PE.
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Affiliation(s)
- Karl Walter
- Psychiatry Department, CHU Lille, Lille, France.,Papageno Program, Lille, France
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- Psychiatry Department, CHU Lille, Lille, France.,Fédération Régionale de Recherche en Psychiatrie et Santé Mentale Hauts-de-France (F2RSM Psy), Saint-André, France.,Centre National de Ressources et Résilience pour les Psychotraumatismes (Cn2r), Lille, France.,PSY Lab, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Centre, INSERM U1172, University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Psychiatry Department, CHU Lille, Lille, France.,Papageno Program, Lille, France
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- Papageno Program, Lille, France.,Fédération Régionale de Recherche en Psychiatrie et Santé Mentale Hauts-de-France (F2RSM Psy), Saint-André, France
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- Psychiatry Department, CHU Lille, Lille, France.,Centre National de Ressources et Résilience pour les Psychotraumatismes (Cn2r), Lille, France.,PSY Lab, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Centre, INSERM U1172, University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Psychiatry Department, CHU Lille, Lille, France.,Papageno Program, Lille, France.,PSY Lab, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Centre, INSERM U1172, University of Lille, Lille, France
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Jardon V, Cleva É, Decoster S, Lamotte A, Debien C. [Preventing suicidal crisis and suicide]. REVUE DE L'INFIRMIERE 2021; 70:29-31. [PMID: 33832726 DOI: 10.1016/j.revinf.2021.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Suicide is not the inevitable outcome of a suicidal crisis. The people concerned are most often sensitive to preventive actions, which can prevent them from committing self-destructive acts. Preventing the suicidal crisis and suicide requires the involvement of healthcare professionals. It is also everyone's business.
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- Vincent Jardon
- Hôpital Michel-Fontan 1 et 2, rue André-Verhaeghe, CHRU de Lille, 59037 Lille cedex, France.
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- Hôpital Michel-Fontan 1 et 2, rue André-Verhaeghe, CHRU de Lille, 59037 Lille cedex, France
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- Hôpital Michel-Fontan 1 et 2, rue André-Verhaeghe, CHRU de Lille, 59037 Lille cedex, France
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- Hôpital Michel-Fontan 1 et 2, rue André-Verhaeghe, CHRU de Lille, 59037 Lille cedex, France
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- Hôpital Michel-Fontan 1 et 2, rue André-Verhaeghe, CHRU de Lille, 59037 Lille cedex, France; Centre national de ressources et de résilience (CN2R), 103, boulevard de la Liberté, 59000 Lille, France
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Vaiva G, Plancke L, Amariei A, Demarty AL, Lardinois M, Creton A, Debien C, Duhem S, Messiah A. [Changes in the number of suicide attempts in the NPC region since the start of VigilanS: First estimates]. Encephale 2018; 45 Suppl 1:S22-S26. [PMID: 30470501 DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2018.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Revised: 09/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/08/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND The implementation of a surveillance program after a suicide attempt (SA) is a very innovative step in the evolution of our system of care. It was interesting to know if we observe a decline in suicide attempts in the region, in particular of recurrences of SA. METHOD We measured the evolution of the number of suicide attempts before and after implantation of VigilanS, using two types of analysis: a first from the national medical information systems in Medicine-Surgery-Obstetrics (PMSI-MCO) and a second from the collection of the ER stays for SA in the hospitals involved in the VigilanS program. RESULTS In 2014 (year before start of VigilanS), a total of 10 119 ER stays for SA was observed (5626 women and4463 men); in 2017, the total was 9.230 stays for SA (5047 women and 3 839 men), representing a decrease of 13.5%. The reduction was balanced between men (-14%) and women (-10%). Based on the figures of PMSI, we see an acceleration of the reduction of stay for SA in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais after 2014 (-16% instead of -6%), instead of the two Picardy departments the most comparable which show a degradation of the phenomenon (+13%), and opposed to the Department of the Oise which shows a stable maintenance of the current decline (-12%). CONCLUSION These two indicators are imperfect, but evolution over three years since the implementation of VigilanS goes in the same direction. We find a uncoupling of a hospital stay in connection with a SA. The intensity of this decline seems correlated to the penetrance of the program.
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- G Vaiva
- SCA-Lab UMR 9193 CNRS, pôle de psychiatrie, médecine légale et médecine en milieu pénitentiaire, CHU de Lille, université de Lille, rue André-Verhaeghe, 59037 Lille, France.
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- Centre lillois d'études sociologiques et économiques, fédération régionale de recherche en psychiatrie et santé mentale Hauts-de-France, 59037 Lille, France
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- Centre lillois d'études sociologiques et économiques, fédération régionale de recherche en psychiatrie et santé mentale Hauts-de-France, 59037 Lille, France
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- Inserm, Fédération de recherche clinique, CHU de Lille, 59037 Lille, France
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- Service universitaire de psychiatrie, CHU de Versailles, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Service de psychiatrie, centre hospitalier de Valenciennes, France
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- SCA-Lab UMR 9193 CNRS, pôle de psychiatrie, médecine légale et médecine en milieu pénitentiaire, CHU de Lille, université de Lille, rue André-Verhaeghe, 59037 Lille, France
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- Inserm, Fédération de recherche clinique, CHU de Lille, 59037 Lille, France
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- Inserm U-1178, mental health and public health, hôpital Paul-Brousse, 94800 Villejuif, France
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