At the attempted suicides of secondary prevention effect of strengthening medical social worker intervention

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25670316
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Hygiene and public health
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: maekawa yoshihiro 大阪大学, 医学部附属病院, 助教 (30624077)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IKEGAWA Hitoshi 大阪大学, 医学部附属病院高度救命救急センター, 助教 (80379198) ; KAZUI Hiroaki 大阪大学, 大学院医学系研究科精神医学, 講師 (30346217)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SHIMADU Takeshi 大阪大学, 医学部附属病院高度救命救急センター, 教授 (50196474) ; RAKUGI Hiromi 大阪大学, 大学院医学系研究科老年・総合内科学, 教授 (20252679)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 地域医療 / MSW / 自殺再企図 / 二次予防

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We built a medical system , that we consult psychiatrists whole patients to determine the treatment and support , and that medical social worker introduce patients to mental hospital , and that emergency physician indicate to consult psychiatrists to patients.When the patient undergo psychiatric hospital firstly , the medical social worker go with the patient.We know the patient's medical situation and if the patient don’t have a medical examination , we recommend the patient to have a medical examination.As a result , whole cases was consulted to psychiatrists and they find patients who need treatment for being moved to the psychiatric ward.Medical social worker intervened cases in increased ratio of 14%.Whole cases were introduced to mental hospital.

Free Research Field

老年医学