Suicide literacy and attitudes toward psychological help-seeking: a cross-sectional study of students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Higher education students express high levels of suicidal ideation. However, data on students' knowledge of suicide and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help are lacking. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate students' suicidal ideation, suicide literacy and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help, and to assess whether these variables were interrelated.

Methods

Higher education students completed an online survey that consisted of 12 questions on suicide literacy (based on the Literacy of Suicide Scale), the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale and the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale.

Results

A total of 2004 students completed the survey. Female students and biomedical s

SUBMITTER: Zilinskas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10192667 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature