Suicide literacy, suicide stigma, and help-seeking attitudes among men in a university setting in Ireland.

ABSTRACT: This study sought to explore the relationship between sociodemographic-, mental health-, knowledge-, attitudinal-, and conformity to masculine norms variables with suicide literacy, suicide stigma, and help-seeking attitudes among men in a university setting (n = 471) in Ireland. Multiple linear regression with backward elimination was used to determine the independent variables associated with suicide literacy, suicide stigma, and help-seeking attitudes. Lower suicide literacy was associated with an ethnic minority background, living in a rural community, postgraduate students compared to undergraduate students, no depression symptoms in the past year, decreasing loneliness, greater suicide stigma, more negative help-seeking attitudes, lower resilience, greater conformity to the masculine

SUBMITTER: O'Donnell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11759269 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature