Project Overview
The death of patients by suicide can have profound effects on the personal and professional life of psychiatrists.
Patient suicide can have an influence on staff recruitment and retention, quality of professional life, patient care and professional well-being.
This important issue has not been well examined in Ireland and there is limited support for clinicians who experience patient suicide.
The purpose of this study is to investigate how patient suicide affects the emotional well-being and clinical practice of psychiatrists in Ireland, and to examine how best to support psychiatrists in their practice in relation to deaths of patients by suicide.
Project Aims
- How patient suicide affects the emotional well-being and clinical practice of psychiatrists.
- The resources that psychiatrists would find helpful before and after the suicide of a patient.
- Psychiatrists’ attitudes to suicide and suicide prevention, and their perceptions of institutional and societal pressures.
Team Members Involved
Dr Paul Corcoran and Dr Clíodhna O’Brien
