Social and psychological factors of the suicidal tendencies of Chinese medical students

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Zhilin Wang¹  Aiming Zheng¹ 

[1]Mental Health Education and Research Center of Nanjing Medical University, No.140 Hanzhong Road, Nanjing 210009, P.R. China

关键词: Psychological factors;    Social factors;    Suicidal tendency;    Chinese medical students;   

Others  :  1082315
DOI  :  10.1186/1751-0759-8-23

 received in 2014-06-22, accepted in 2014-10-10,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Over the past few decades, concern about suicide by college students has been on the rise worldwide, in general and in China particularly. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of social and psychological factors on the suicidal tendencies of Chinese medical students.

Findings

Of the 540 students surveyed, 48 had a suicidal tendency to some extent. The highest rate of suicide was observed for fourth-year students, followed by the fifth-year, first-year, third-year, and second-year students. Female students and students not satisfied with their major had a higher rate of suicidal tendency. However, mature coping strategies had a protective effect on suicide. The stepwise regression analysis shows that academic burden, grade, and introversion/extraversion are the most significant risk factors for the suicidal tendency of Chinese medical students.

Conclusion

Suicide is affected by demographic risk factors as well as psychological factors. Our results lend support to a multi-factorial approach to the understanding and prevention of suicide by college students.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Zheng and Wang; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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