NSSA is a widespread phenomenon among young people, so professionals working in the primary care of mentally ill young people should have knowledge of how to deal with NSSA. This knowledge is provided by the treatment guidelines for dealing with NSSA, which have been available since However, it is known from other areas of medicine that knowledge of current treatment guidelines often does not reach clinical practice.
This raises the question of how the findings set out in the guidelines can be transferred into clinical practice. Firstly, the current state of knowledge about NSSV and the treatment guideline will be analysed and the need for information recorded.
Based on this, various information offerings print brochure, online course and blended learning will be designed and compared in terms of how effective and helpful the training programmes are in terms of imparting skills for dealing with NSSV. To this end, all groups are surveyed using online questionnaires directly before the online course is activated or the brochure is sent out and after completion of the online course, possibly with participation in a face-to-face course, or after working through the brochure, and a catamnesis survey is conducted three months after this survey to check how sustainable the skills acquired are.
The results of the inventory analysis of doctors, psychotherapists and psychologists show that the respondents are frequently confronted with NSSV in their professional context. Most of them stated that they had prior knowledge of NSSA, which they had acquired less through systematic programmes such as further training or studies, but rather through exchanges with colleagues, professional experience or self-study.
Their own skills and knowledge in relation to NSSV are assessed as being at an average level. The three training courses developed print brochure, online course and blended learning were examined in a randomised controlled pre-post group comparison study with physicians and psychotherapists in terms of knowledge, action skills, self-efficacy experience, attitudes towards NSSV and satisfaction with the training courses.
