ArticleBJPsych open2023
Family involvement, patient safety and suicide prevention in mental healthcare: ethnographic study.
Article in BJPsych open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review on the frequency and quality of reporting patient and public involvement in patient safety research.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- Comparative Effectiveness of Individual, Group, Family and Combined Therapy Formats on Suicidality: A Meta-Analysis.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Suicidal and self-harm behaviors in emergency psychiatry: bridging risk assessment and clinical decision-making.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Clinical symptoms and risk factors in people with mental disorders: findings from the interRAI emergency screener for psychiatry in Brazil.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Evaluating Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) models for suicide risk assessment in synthetic patient journal entries.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Artificial Intelligence for Management of Major Depression: Initial Design, Progress, and Research Plans.Alpha psychiatry · 2025Article
- Outpatient Mental Health Nurses' Experiences of Suicide Follow-Up Interventions: A Qualitative Interview Study.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundFamily involvement has been identified as a key aspect of clinical practice that may help to prevent suicide.
aimsTo investigate how families can be effectively involved in supporting a patient accessing crisis mental health services.
methodA multi-site ethnographic investigation was undertaken with two crisis resolution home treatment teams in England. Data included 27 observations of clinical practice and interviews with 6 patients, 4 family members, and 13 healthcare professionals. Data were analysed using framework analysis.
resultsThree overarching themes described how families and carers are involved in mental healthcare. Families played a key role in keeping patients safe by reducing access to means of self-harm. They also provided useful contextual information to healthcare professionals delivering the service. However, delivering a home-based service can be challenging in the absence of a supportive family environment or because of practical problems such as the lack of suitable private spaces within the home. At an organisational level, service design and delivery can be adjusted to promote family involvement.
conclusionsFindings from this study indicate that better communication and dissemination of safety and care plans, shared learning, signposting to carer groups and support for carers may facilitate better family involvement. Organisationally, offering flexible appointment times and alternative spaces for appointments may help improve services for patients.
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