Table 1.
Participants’ Characteristics.
| Characteristics | N | % |
|---|---|---|
| Participants (N = 239) | ||
| Psychologists | 126 | 52.7 |
| Psychiatrists (general and child) | 53 | 22.2 |
| General Practitioner | 60 | 25.1 |
| Gender (N = 239) | ||
| Female | 166 | 69.5 |
| Male | 73 | 30.5 |
| Specific training in suicide prevention (N = 239) | ||
| Yes | 43 | 18.2 |
| No | 193 | 81.8 |
| Experience with suicidal behaviours in clinical practice (N = 234) * | ||
| Patient suicide attempt or serious risk of suicidal behaviour | 195 | 83.3 |
| Patient suicide | 64 | 26.9 |
| Number of patient suicide attempts (N = 186) | ||
| Few ≤3 | 83 | 44.6 |
| Moderate 4–8 | 43 | 23.1 |
| Many ≥9 | 60 | 32.3 |
| Work places (N = 239) | ||
| Hospitals | 77 | 32.3 |
| Public health centres | 72 | 30.3 |
| Schools or colleges/universities | 57 | 23.9 |
| Community centres | 27 | 11.3 |
| Others (e.g., centres for drugs addiction treatment) | 28 | 11.8 |
* The total number of health professionals who had experience with suicidal patients was 196, of which 195 had patient suicide attempts, 1 had patient suicide (without patient suicide attempts) and 63 had both. Ten health professionals didn’t specify how many patients with suicide attempts they had.