SynthesisThe Psychiatric quarterly2020
The Global Prevalence of Suicidal Attempt among Medical Students: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Suicidal behaviours and associated factors among Bangladeshi medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2000-2024).BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- Risk factors for suicidal ideation and suicide attempt among medical students: A meta-analysis.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Nationwide assessment of burnout among medical undergraduates in Saudi Arabia using the Maslach Burnout Inventory.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Suicidal Behaviors Among Medical Students: A Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Barriers to Seeking Psychological Help among First-Year Medical Students: A Cross- Sectional Study from Turkey.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Article
- THE IDEAL MEDICAL STUDENT: THE NIGERIAN TRAINEES PERSPECTIVE.Annals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine · 2024Article
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- Suicide Literacy and Attitudes Toward Seeking Psychological Help among Medical Residents.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2024Article
- Reducing the risk of suicidal behaviors in medical graduate students: exploration of student-supervisor relationship and subjective family socioeconomic status.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Comparison of prevalence of depression symptoms and history of suicidality in students of medical schools and other study programmes of Charles University.Central European journal of public health · 2023Article
- What covariates drive medical students to the brink of suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt? A double-centric cross-sectional study in a resource-constrained rural setting in North India.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Attitude Towards Suicide and Help-Seeking Behavior Among Medical Undergraduates in a Malaysian University.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2021Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Even though suicidal attempt among medical students is a major public health concern, there are no prior studies that reported its consolidated magnitude worldwide. To the best of our knowledge, this systematic review is the first to quantitatively analyze the prevalence of suicidal attempts among medical students. We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, and Scopus for English language articles that assessed the prevalence of suicide attempts among medical students. A random-effect meta-analysis was used to combine data from individual studies. The heterogeneity across the studies was evaluated using Cochran's Q- and the I
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