ArticleBMC psychiatry2017
Suicidal ideation and its correlates among high school students in Iran: a cross-sectional study.
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- Factors associated with suicidality among school attending adolescents in morocco.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Parent-adolescent relationships and their associations with adolescent suicidal behaviours: Secondary analysis of data from 52 countries using the Global School-based Health Survey.EClinicalMedicine · 2021Article
- The Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation after the Earthquake: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2020Review
- Predictors of suicidal ideation among Iranian patients with multiple sclerosis.Current journal of neurology · 2020Article
- Global School-based Student Health Survey reveals correlates of suicidal behaviors in Brunei Darussalam: a nationwide cross-sectional study.Journal of injury & violence research · 2020Article
- Psychological factors of vulnerability to suicide ideation: Attachment styles, coping strategies, and dysfunctional attitudes.Journal of education and health promotion · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundGlobally, the second leading cause of death among adolescents is suicide and in middle-income countries adolescents' suicidal ideation is a neglected public health area. The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation among 15-17-year-old high school students in Iran.
methodsSelf-administered, Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) questionnaires were distributed to a representative sample (N =1517) of high-school students aged 15-17 in the city of Tabriz. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the association between relevant independent variables (e.g. gender) and the dependent outcome variable (suicidal ideation in the past 12 months).
resultsOverall, 62 (4.1%, 95% CI= 3.1, 5.2) of 1,517 students had thoughts of suicide. Three hundred and thirteen (20.6%, 95% CI= 18.6, 22.7) students reported being bullied in the previous 30 days. In addition, 134 (8.8%, 95% CI= 7.5, 10.3) students reported having been sexually abused. Being worried that they could not eat or did not feel hungry (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) = 4.15; 95% Cl [1.71, 10.07]; current cigarette smoking (AOR = 3.00; 95% CI [1.69, 5.30]; thinking about using alcohol or other drugs (AOR = 4.28; 95% CI [2.41, 7.59]; and being sexually abused (AOR = 2.63; 95% CI [1.32, 5.24]) were all factors positively associated with suicidal ideation.
conclusionThe prevalence of suicidal ideation was lower in our school students than in earlier studies. Interventions that address the issue of current cigarette smoking, worries, thinking about using alcohol or other drugs and sexual abuse should be given more priority by the public health authorities.
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