IPA interviews re: a suicide safety planning intervention
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An exploration of how suicidal individuals, health practitioners and nominated ‘significant others’ describe their expectations and experiences of participating in a suicide safety planning intervention, utilising Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) methodology.
IRAS ID
332626
Contact name
Elizabeth Perkins
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 29 days
Research summary
Globally, one person dies by suicide every forty seconds. The annual economic cost of suicide is estimated to be £1.1 trillion globally and £8.8 billion nationally in the United Kingdom (UK). Current global and national suicide prevention strategies promote: early intervention; evidence based clinical interventions; and engagement with friends, family, carers (i.e. significant others), for service users, to ensure they receive the support and care they need in a timely manner.
The Safety Plan Intervention is a CBT-informed brief suicide prevention clinical intervention that seeks to: raise self-awareness and social connections; restrict access to suicide means; improve problem solving and coping skills and generate hope, for individuals. It is collaborative in nature, between an individual (i.e. service user), health practitioner and significant other and has been shown to reduce suicidal risk and have a positive impact upon health service utilisation.
This case study design project, using interpretative phenomenological analysis methodology, will recruit up to twelve participants - representing four case studies - each comprising a service user, health professional and significant other, who have participated in the same safety plan within the Step Forward Service within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. This service is a new model of care derived from the NHS Community Transformation Programme, offering a personalised suicide safety plan and choice of psychologically informed interventions to adults either presenting with mental health difficulties in the community or being discharged back to primary care services from secondary mental health services. Individual, semi-structured interviews will explore how suicidal individuals, health practitioners and ‘significant others’ describe their expectations and experiences of, subsequent views about and impacts from, participating in a suicide safety planning intervention. Service users can nominate a significant other, if they were not included in this intervention.
REC name
North West - Preston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/NW/0293
Date of REC Opinion
28 Nov 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion