Expanding suicide crisis services to text and chat: Responders' perspectives of the differences between communication modalities

Crisis

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 255-260

  Predmore, Zachary ^a   Ramchand, Rajeev ^a   Ayer, Lynsay ^a   Kotzias, Virginia ^a   Engel, Charles ^a   Ebener, Patricia ^a   Kemp, Janet E ^b   Karras, Elizabeth ^b,c,d   Haas, Gretchen L ^e  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis intervention; Prevention and control; Suicide; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOTLINE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUICIDE; TEXT MESSAGING; VETERAN;

CRISIS INTERVENTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HOTLINES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUICIDE; TEXT MESSAGING; VETERANS;

EID: 85030626924     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: 21512396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000460     Document Type: Article

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