"Domestic Youth Reacts Sensitive to Suicide-Related Media Exposure"
Sep 26, 2024
It has been revealed that Korean adolescents have a higher risk of suicide when they are exposed to suicide-related media, when there are suicide deaths among those around them, and when they cannot ask for help in difficult and difficult times. Female adolescents also had a higher risk of suicide than male adolescents.
Professor Kang Seung-gul of the Department of Mental Health Medicine at Gachon University Gil Hospital (Director of the Suicide Prevention Center in Incheon) and Bae Min-nam, Ahn Woo-hwi, Jeon Hye-jin, and Kim Min-ji of the Incheon Suicide Prevention Center were revealed in a suicide-inducing factor analysis study of 2,225 teenagers.
This study was conducted to identify the factors affecting the suicide risk of adolescents and to prepare the basis for the promotion of youth suicide prevention policies.
Professor Kang Seung-gul confirmed that the risk of suicide among adolescents is related to various social and environmental factors as well as personal characteristics"This study suggests that a personal and social-environmental approach is needed to prevent adolescent suicide."
In the study, Professor Kang Seung-gul's research team analyzed suicide risk factors and protection factors by dividing them into 316 (14.2%) high-risk suicide groups and 190 (85.8%) low-risk groups according to the suicide risk assessment criteria among 2,225 subjects. The subjects consisted of applicants among teenagers aged 12 to 18 living in Incheon Metropolitan City, and a structured questionnaire was used.
Among the study subjects, 849 (38.2%) were male and 1376 (61.8%) were female, and the average age was 15.4 years. Among the institutions enrolled, 1,213 students (54.5%) in high schools and 966 students (43.4%) in middle schools.
As a result of the study, the proportion of high-risk groups who have watched scenes related to suicide scenes through media was 72.5% (229 people), higher than 51.2% (977 people) of low-risk groups, which was statistically significant. In addition, 17.1% (54) of the high-risk group was higher than 5.9% (112) of the low-risk group for those with suicide deaths among those around them. In addition, 19.6% (62 people) of the high-risk group did not have a support system to ask for help when it was difficult and difficult, higher than 4.0% (77 people) of the low-risk group. In addition, 'Do you think suicide is preventable?In the case of the percentage of respondents who answered that it was possible, the high-risk group was 69.3% (219 people), which was lower than the low-risk group of 91.2% (1741 people).
Looking at the factors of gender and age on suicide risk, the proportion of women in the high-risk group was 67.7%, significantly higher than 60.9% in the low-risk group. Age differences were not significant.
Therefore, the research team explained that it is necessary to help understand and improve awareness of suicide prevention through media and online monitoring and campaigns, as it has confirmed that suicide-related media are related to suicide risk. He also added that it is important to raise awareness of the harmful and induced information of suicide.
He also explained that as suicide deaths by people around him increase the risk of suicide, various service support and suicide follow-up services for suicide survivors should be actively provided through pilot operations of the Ministry of Health and Welfare's one-stop service support project. In addition, he explained that since there is a high risk of suicide of adolescents who responded that there is no one around them to ask for help in difficult and difficult times, a safety net should be established through education of peers and teachers' lifeguards, and proper suicide prevention education should be provided, such as mandatory suicide prevention education.
Professor Seung-Gul Kang said "This study was conducted to analyze the characteristics of high-risk suicide groups and provide evidence for establishing strategies to provide effective suicide prevention services accordingly""The risk and protection factors of adolescents' suicide should be approached from multiple perspectives, such as social, cultural, and biological factors, along with personal factors, and the youth suicide prevention policy should be effectively promoted by analyzing various factors. "
The abstract of this research paper was recently held by the Korea Suicide Prevention Association at the Baekbeom Kimgu Memorial Hall and won the Outstanding Poster Award under the title of 「18th Suicide Prevention Conference」 sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Welfare」.
Professor Kang Seung-gul of the Department of Mental Health Medicine at Gachon University Gil Hospital (Director of the Suicide Prevention Center in Incheon) and Bae Min-nam, Ahn Woo-hwi, Jeon Hye-jin, and Kim Min-ji of the Incheon Suicide Prevention Center were revealed in a suicide-inducing factor analysis study of 2,225 teenagers.
This study was conducted to identify the factors affecting the suicide risk of adolescents and to prepare the basis for the promotion of youth suicide prevention policies.
Professor Kang Seung-gul confirmed that the risk of suicide among adolescents is related to various social and environmental factors as well as personal characteristics"This study suggests that a personal and social-environmental approach is needed to prevent adolescent suicide."
In the study, Professor Kang Seung-gul's research team analyzed suicide risk factors and protection factors by dividing them into 316 (14.2%) high-risk suicide groups and 190 (85.8%) low-risk groups according to the suicide risk assessment criteria among 2,225 subjects. The subjects consisted of applicants among teenagers aged 12 to 18 living in Incheon Metropolitan City, and a structured questionnaire was used.
Among the study subjects, 849 (38.2%) were male and 1376 (61.8%) were female, and the average age was 15.4 years. Among the institutions enrolled, 1,213 students (54.5%) in high schools and 966 students (43.4%) in middle schools.
As a result of the study, the proportion of high-risk groups who have watched scenes related to suicide scenes through media was 72.5% (229 people), higher than 51.2% (977 people) of low-risk groups, which was statistically significant. In addition, 17.1% (54) of the high-risk group was higher than 5.9% (112) of the low-risk group for those with suicide deaths among those around them. In addition, 19.6% (62 people) of the high-risk group did not have a support system to ask for help when it was difficult and difficult, higher than 4.0% (77 people) of the low-risk group. In addition, 'Do you think suicide is preventable?In the case of the percentage of respondents who answered that it was possible, the high-risk group was 69.3% (219 people), which was lower than the low-risk group of 91.2% (1741 people).
Looking at the factors of gender and age on suicide risk, the proportion of women in the high-risk group was 67.7%, significantly higher than 60.9% in the low-risk group. Age differences were not significant.
Therefore, the research team explained that it is necessary to help understand and improve awareness of suicide prevention through media and online monitoring and campaigns, as it has confirmed that suicide-related media are related to suicide risk. He also added that it is important to raise awareness of the harmful and induced information of suicide.
He also explained that as suicide deaths by people around him increase the risk of suicide, various service support and suicide follow-up services for suicide survivors should be actively provided through pilot operations of the Ministry of Health and Welfare's one-stop service support project. In addition, he explained that since there is a high risk of suicide of adolescents who responded that there is no one around them to ask for help in difficult and difficult times, a safety net should be established through education of peers and teachers' lifeguards, and proper suicide prevention education should be provided, such as mandatory suicide prevention education.
Professor Seung-Gul Kang said "This study was conducted to analyze the characteristics of high-risk suicide groups and provide evidence for establishing strategies to provide effective suicide prevention services accordingly""The risk and protection factors of adolescents' suicide should be approached from multiple perspectives, such as social, cultural, and biological factors, along with personal factors, and the youth suicide prevention policy should be effectively promoted by analyzing various factors. "
The abstract of this research paper was recently held by the Korea Suicide Prevention Association at the Baekbeom Kimgu Memorial Hall and won the Outstanding Poster Award under the title of 「18th Suicide Prevention Conference」 sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Welfare」.
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