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Table 4 Overview of the narrative synthesis

From: Shared understanding of resilient practices in the context of inpatient suicide prevention: a narrative synthesis

Main theme

Relationships of trust in resilient practices for patients in suicidal crisis

Sub-themes

Interactions capturing non-verbal cues

Protection through dignity and watchfulness

Personalised approaches to alleviate emotional pressure

Patients’ perspective

Struggle to communicate suicidal ideations [2]

Safe balance among multiple needs for protection [1,2]

Regaining a sense of control through coping with symptoms and difficulties [1,2]

HCPs’ perspective

Attending to multiple sources of information to make sense of suicidal behaviour [3]

Adjusting protection of the patient through dynamic trade-offs between under- and over-protection [3]

Targeting underlying issues by creating individual clinical pathways [3]

  1. Sources
  2. [1] = Sample 1, systematic review of patient experiences
  3. [2] = Sample 2, interview study with patients
  4. [3] = Sample 3, interview study with HCPs