TABLE 2.
Types of suicide training received by health care workers in seven states, by professional group
| Professional group | Total in sample | ASIST onlya | QPR onlyb | Other only | No training | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Social worker or case manager | 3,805 | 274 | 7.2 | 302 | 7.9 | 945 | 24.8 | 2,284 | 60.0 |
| Counselor or therapist | 2,240 | 117 | 5.2 | 248 | 11.1 | 848 | 37.9 | 1,027 | 45.8 |
| Physician or other prescriber | 766 | 12 | 1.6 | 31 | 4.0 | 224 | 29.2 | 499 | 65.1 |
| Nurse | 1,607 | 43 | 2.7 | 151 | 9.4 | 365 | 22.7 | 1,048 | 65.2 |
| Administrator | 2,133 | 83 | 3.9 | 156 | 7.3 | 441 | 20.7 | 1,453 | 68.1 |
| Support staff | 2,018 | 40 | 2.0 | 100 | 5.0 | 229 | 11.3 | 1,649 | 81.7 |
| Paraprofessional | 1,201 | 56 | 4.7 | 69 | 5.7 | 207 | 17.2 | 869 | 72.4 |
| Totalc | 13,770 | 625 | 4.5 | 1,057 | 7.7 | 3,259 | 23.7 | 8,829 | 64.1 |
a
ASIST, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
b
QPR, Question, Persuade, and Refer
c
In the overall sample (N=16,693), 11.8% (N=1,968) were missing data on training type, resulting in 14,725 valid cases for training type. Of the valid cases, 955 completed more than one training and were not included in training type analyses or this table. Thus cases used in analysis totaled 13,770.