Patients’ Needs During the Year After a Suicide Attempt: a Secondary Analysis of a Randomised Controlled Intervention Study

This article examines a study on whether changes of patient needs were influenced by randomly allocated telephone interventions. The telephone interventions occured 1 & 12 months after a suicide attempt, which was in addition to medical treatment. The article concludes that after a 12 month period many people still had needs in aspects such as health, basic needs, & social needs. The article concludes that a structured evaluation of the patient’s needs seems to be helpful when planning treatment after a suicide attempt. (36 refs.) (AK)