TY - JOUR
T1 - Counseling on Access to Lethal Means in the Emergency Department
T2 - A Script for Improved Comfort
AU - Mueller, Kristen L.
AU - Chirumbole, Danielle
AU - Naganathan, Sonya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - Individuals with suicidal ideation (SI) frequently present to the emergency department (ED). We hypothesized that CALM: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means training improves non-physician provider comfort with delivering an ED-based counseling intervention on lethal means restriction. Ten non-physician intervention counselors who currently provide CALM to ED patients presenting with SI were surveyed for demographics, prior experience caring for patients with SI, prior CALM experience, comfort providing CALM, and which method of training most improved comfort with CALM. Survey response rate was 100%. Following CALM training, 80% of respondents expressed confidence in their ability to counsel patients on safe storage of lethal means, although 50% felt that a script most improved comfort. Most survey respondents reported feeling comfortable counseling suicidal patients on safe storage of lethal means, but that the addition of a script for the counseling session improved comfort more than the online CALM training.
AB - Individuals with suicidal ideation (SI) frequently present to the emergency department (ED). We hypothesized that CALM: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means training improves non-physician provider comfort with delivering an ED-based counseling intervention on lethal means restriction. Ten non-physician intervention counselors who currently provide CALM to ED patients presenting with SI were surveyed for demographics, prior experience caring for patients with SI, prior CALM experience, comfort providing CALM, and which method of training most improved comfort with CALM. Survey response rate was 100%. Following CALM training, 80% of respondents expressed confidence in their ability to counsel patients on safe storage of lethal means, although 50% felt that a script most improved comfort. Most survey respondents reported feeling comfortable counseling suicidal patients on safe storage of lethal means, but that the addition of a script for the counseling session improved comfort more than the online CALM training.
KW - Counseling onaccess to lethal means
KW - Emergency department
KW - Emergency medicine
KW - Suicide prevention
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079590824&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10597-020-00575-x
DO - 10.1007/s10597-020-00575-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 32065318
AN - SCOPUS:85079590824
SN - 0010-3853
VL - 56
SP - 1366
EP - 1371
JO - Community Mental Health Journal
JF - Community Mental Health Journal
IS - 7
ER -