Specifics of life and death attitudes in patients in acute postsuicide and psychiatrists

Conflicting and even hostile, stigmatizing attitudes of psychiatrists to suicidal patients is noted in many studies. Aim: This study aims to check the worldview differences in death and life attitudes in these two groups of people. Materials: the clinical sample comprised of 185 people in acute postsuicide (2-14 days, 64 males, 121 females, age 16-27, М=21.39±2.42) and 168 psychiatrists (49 males, 119 females, age 27-81, М=46.25±13.88). Materials: Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, short version of Experience in Close Relationships - Revised, Hardiness Survey, short versions of Death Attitude Profile Revised and Fear of Personal Death Scale; Death Experience questionnaire. Results: Analysis of differences t-Student showed that psychiatrist and suicidal patients differed in most chosen characteristics (Cohen's d .21 - .77). They didn't differ though in the sum of Death Experiences, but doctors noted more interaction with deaths of unknown people (x2(2,352)=37...