- Title
- Understanding ambivalence in help-seeking for suicidal-people with comorbid depression and alcohol misuse
- Creator
- Heinsch, Milena; Sampson, Dara; Huens, Valerie; Handley, Tonelle; Hanstock, Tanya; Harris, Keith; Kay-Lambkin, Frances
- Relation
- PLoS One Vol. 15, Issue 4, no. e0231647
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231647
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Help-seeking prior to a suicide attempt is poorly understood. Participants were recruited from a previous research trial who reported a history of suicidal behaviours upon follow-up. Qualitative interviews were conducted with six adults to understand their lived experience of a suicide attempt and the issues affecting help-seeking prior to that attempt. Participants described being aware of personal and professional supports available; however, were ambivalent about accessing them for multiple reasons. This paper employs an ecological systems framework to better understand the complex and multi-layered interpersonal, societal and cultural challenges to help-seeking that people with suicidal ideation can experience.
- Subject
- suicide; alcohols; depression; mental health and psychiatry; behavior; human families; medical risk factors; culture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1417979
- Identifier
- uon:37283
- Identifier
- ISSN:1932-6203
- Rights
- © 2020 Heinsch et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Language
- eng
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