Priorities for the development and evaluation of support after suicide bereavement in the UK: Results of a discussion group
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We present the results of a group discussion conducted to identify research priorities among people bereaved by suicide regarding support needs. The authors’ research team had recently published evidence from a UK-wide sample of young bereaved adults showing that those bereaved by suicide had a greater probability of suicide attempt than those bereaved by other causes of sudden death. For this study, ten UK-based adults bereaved by the suicide of a partner or family member were invited to join a group discussion to identify and prioritise an intervention to evaluate. These priorities were discussed in the context of unmet needs for support, identifying a need to develop and evaluate: immediate outreach after suicide; diversification and development of peer support services; and individual psychological support for those who feel suicidal. The group also suggested five key outcome measures: isolation; stigma; psychological health; day-to-day social functioning; and functioning in a work or caregiver role. The views presented in this discussion are a valuable contribution to the design of research that will inform national public health policy and the suicide prevention strategy for England.
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Our findings regarding the need for others to initiate support are similar to those from Australian, Danish, and British focus group work.
“Our findings regarding the need for others to initiate support are similar to those from Australian [22,40] and Danish qualitative work [41] and our previously published British focus group discussion [42].”
From Support Needs and Experiences of People Bereaved by Suicide: Qualitative Findings from a Cross-Sectional British Study of Bereaved Young Adults (2018) · cites this paper as [42]
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- Authors
- Pitman, A., Khrisna Putri, A., Kennedy, N., De Souza, T., King, M., & Osborn, D.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- MSc student UCL Division of Psychiatry
- Chair, Suicide Bereaved Network
- Corresponding author
- Pitman, Alexandra
- Venue
- Bereavement Care
- Publisher
- Cruse Bereavement Care
- Published
- 2016-09
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 109-116
- ISSN
- 0268-2621 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8279
- OpenAlex
- W2564586160
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 2.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Locations
- Bereavement Care (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Medical Research Council (MR/L501487/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Keywords
- suicide bereavement, bereaved adults, support needs, research priorities, peer support services, psychological support, suicide attempts, stigma, social isolation, outcome measures, suicide prevention policy, public health policy
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