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A Study to Assess Suicidal Ideation Among Secondary School going Adolescents in Selected Schools at Bharuch

G Stella Gracy, Lecturer of Psychiatry Bursing, Asmara College of Health Science, Asmara, Erritrea, East Africa. , G Stella Gracy1 , Patel Shahin2

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International Journal of Pediatric Nursing 7(3):p 105-110, . | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijpen.2454.9126.7321.3
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Today, Suicide becomes a major problem in the world. Adolescence is a period in which teens have lack of maturity, they are dealing many changes and challenges during adolescence phase. Due to this; they have suicidal ideation. The aim of the study was to assess the suicidal ideation among secondary school going adolescents in selected schools at Bharuch. The quantitative descriptive approach was adopted in this study. Total five schools were selected with convenient sampling technique and in stage two simple random sampling techniques were used to select 532 students as sample in this study. Modified scale for suicidal ideation (MSSI) was used. The MSSI scale has given by Ivan w. miller, William H. Norman, Stephan B. Bishop, Michael G. Dow. Reliability of the scale was 0.94. Descriptive and inferential analysis was used. The result shows that 45.67% adolescents are having mild suicidal ideation, 10.52% adolescents are having moderate suicidal ideation and 0.93% adolescents are having severe suicidal ideation. There was significant association between suicidal ideation with age, sex, BMI, income, attendance of prayer, substance use, type of family, residence, performance of friend and school performance. Keywords: Suicide; Suicidal ideation; Secondary school going Adolescents.


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