A STUDY TO ASSESS PREVALENCE OF SUICIDAL IDEATION AND ITS SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Anmol Madhur Minz; Satyendra Prasad Singh; Smita Verma

Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

A STUDY TO ASSESS PREVALENCE OF SUICIDAL IDEATION AND ITS SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Anmol Madhur Minz, Satyendra Prasad Singh, Smita Verma

Abstract :

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young adults worldwide. There is a growing recognition that prevention strategies need to be tailored to the region–specific demographics of a country and to be implemented in a culturally–sensitive manner. So we have done this study on sample of size 643 adolescents using multi stage simple random sampling to explore the social factors of suicide in Raipur area of Chhattisgarh, India. After analysis of the data it was found that prevalence of suicidal ideation is (28.30%) and one of the major determinant found was lower socio economic status (p<0.05 as significant)