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Citation

MacDonald MG. Percept. Mot. Skills 2007; 105(2): 373-378.

Affiliation

Teacher Development and Educational Studies Department, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA. mmacdona@oakland.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18065058

Abstract

Undergraduate education majors' knowledge about suicide was evaluated to identify what training they may need about suicide prevention and to explore the hypothesis that individuals previously exposed to suicide in their social context may hold higher suicide-related knowledge than those without. 71 college students completed the 50-item Expanded Revised Facts on Suicide Quiz to examine their knowledge about suicide. While overall knowledge was low for general information and for specific items concerning suicide among youth and elderly persons, knowledge was high on several items important for suicide prevention work. Higher suicide-related knowledge was found for knowing a suicide attempter, providing partial support for the hypothesis that personal experience with suicidal people may correspond with greater knowledge about suicide.


Language: en

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