Table 4.

Experience, competence, interest in suicide prevention and view of religion (%)

	Stavropol			Oslo			Stavropol Oslo
	n = 112			n = 173			n = 285
	Physicians and nurses %	Psychologists %	p	Physicians and nurses %	Psychologists %	p	%	%	p
Experienced lost of own patient to suicide	23	11	ns	36	14	<0.001	15	23	ns
Experienced suicide attempt in own patient	65	45	ns	79	73	ns	50	76	<0.001
Experience self-harm in own patient	69	58	ns	95	91	ns	62	92	<0.001
Course in suicide prevention	11	19	ns	78	78	ns	15	78	<0.001
Written guidelines; suicide prevention	44	13	p = 0.002	87	92	ns	23	90	<0.001
Need education in suicide prevention	70	82	ns	70	73	ns	78	73	ns
My religious background determines my views of suicide	33	27	ns	18	2	p = 0.036	29	3	<0.001

Scale: Yes or no

Scale for “need education in suicide prevention” and “religious background”: In very high degree, In fairly high degree, In moderate degree, In limited extent, Not at all. Here % of very high and fairly high degree

Ns = Non significant