Prevalence of suicide attempts among college students in China: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide is the leading cause of death among 15-34 year olds in China, but no national data are available on the suicide and suicide attempts rates of college students, a sub-group of youth with 23 million. Several studies have reported the prevalence of suicide attempts among college students, however, no meta-analysis pooling the prevalence of suicide attempts is found.

Objective and methods

This study aims to estimate the pooled prevalence of suicide attempts among college students in China. The relevant studies up to August 2014 were systematically searched via electronic databases (PubMed-Medline, Embase, Chinese Wanfang database, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure and Chinese VIP database). We only selected original articles that either reported the pr

SUBMITTER: Yang LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4321993 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature