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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.6.2680

Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Awareness and, Attitude of Suicide in High School Students  

Song, Sung-Ho (Department of Medical Informatics, Hyechon University)
Kwon, In-Sun (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Chungnam National University Medical Sciences)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.6, 2012 , pp. 2680-2689 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was aimed at finding out the relationship between the level of depression and the recognition and attitude of suicide and the study was conducted by a structured and self-filling questionnaire survey for 1,114 urban area students and 968 rural area students (totaled 2,082) in K city in the central districts of the country from July 1, 2009 to July 31, 2009. The result of the study showed that the more serious the level of depression, the higher the recognition and level of attitude for suicide was. Suicide attitude had a meaningful relationship with the degree of suicide recognition and the level of depression and the level of suicide recognition was closely connected with the level of depression. The result of the analysis of Hierarchial multiple regression showed the meaningfully related factors that affect the level of depression were sex, major, grade, school life satisfaction, fellowship with schoolmates, departing from girl or boyfriends, the lowest bracket of living standard, subjective health, smoking, financial status of household, a quarrel with parents and attitude of suicide. In particular, variables that are related to the condition of family life have high relationship with the level of depression.
Keywords
Depression; Suicide; Awareness; Attitude; High School Students;
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