When performing a suicide risk assessment, for which factors should the nurse assess based on an understanding of the psychiatric causal factor in suicide?
1. Anticipatory grief
2. Fearful anxiety
3. Acute illness
4. Increased productivity
Answer: 2
Explanation: Anxiety has been implicated as a psychiatric causal factor in most research that has focused on the study of suicide. Specifically, anxiety that is fearful and filled with apprehension has been linked to high tendencies of suicide. Depression and decreased, not increased, productivity have been linked to an increased risk in suicide. Chronic disease, not acute disease, is linked to an increased risk for suicide. Anticipatory grief is not associated with increased risk for suicide.
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