دورية أكاديمية
The pattern of crisis calls to a suicide telephone helpline service in Nigeria
| العنوان: | The pattern of crisis calls to a suicide telephone helpline service in Nigeria |
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| المؤلفون: | Ogbolu RE, Oyatokun BO, Adegbite TA, Ogunsola K, Tade T, Olafisoye O, Aina OF |
| المصدر: | Annals of Health Research, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 246-257 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, OOUTH Sagamu, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine (General) LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | crisis intervention, mental health, suicide, telephone helpline, Medicine (General), R5-920, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: | Background: Suicide is the deliberate killing of oneself. Although it is preventable, suicide accounts for over 800,000 global deaths annually. There is the need to scale-up prevention strategies, and one of these strategies is the provision of suicide telephone helplines. Objectives: To describe the pattern of calls received by a suicide telephone helpline and the types of intervention provided in a Nigerian facility. Methods: This was a descriptive study of the first 100 completed calls received on a 24-hour suicide telephone helpline service by trained responders. Results: All the calls emanated from 14 states of the federation, with the majority (83.0%) from the Southern parts of the country. The reasons for the telephone calls varied from crisis situations (47.0%) to telephone number-verification (27.0%), mental health information (20.0%), and others (6.0%). The mean age of the crisis -situation callers was 25.8 years, with a slight female preponderance (53.2%); most were single in marital status (68.1%) and unemployed (70.2%). A majority (72.3%) of the callers had an underlying mental condition, 68.1% had suicidal ideation while 12.8% had previously attempted suicide. All the crisis callers were offered interventions ranging from phone counselling to linkage to the nearest mental health services. Conclusion: A majority of the crisis callers were offered mental health services, raising the possibility that the availability of telephone helplines may play a role in suicide prevention in Nigeria. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2476-8642 2536-6149 |
| Relation: | https://www.annalsofhealthresearch.com/index.php/ahr/article/view/236; https://doaj.org/toc/2476-8642; https://doaj.org/toc/2536-6149 |
| DOI: | 10.30442/ahr.0603-01-87 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/7ae7b5bd9ea34ead92f48e3296c5cf0c |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.7ae7b5bd9ea34ead92f48e3296c5cf0c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 24768642 25366149 |
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| DOI: | 10.30442/ahr.0603-01-87 |