Study 1
Critical policy analysis, literature review, interviews and focus groups
Context:
Most evidence on suicidality in NHS staff, including nurses, derives from quantitative, retrospective studies, using data from death registers. Such research frequently focuses on individual risk factors (e.g., psychiatric illness, marital status, age, sex). To extend this viewpoint we firstly need to understand how distress, suicidality and suicide prevention in nurses is positioned and constructed in research and policy and with what political, social and personal consequences.
Study aims:
This study aims to identify and characterise existing critical policy-research gaps and current discourses, and their political, social and personal consequences, incorporating the perspectives of different stakeholders.
Participants:
We will be seeking to engage national and local policymakers and employers (e.g., regional chief nurses, wellbeing champions, HR); and a diverse sample of nurses.
We will be recruiting participants from January 2025.
Methods:
A critical policy analysis and a critical literature review will precede interviews with key policy makers and employers, and focus groups and interviews with a diverse sample of nurses. Critical feminist discourse analyses will be applied to all data.
Contact us:
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