@article{ref1,
title="Study on the school-related-factors of attempted suicide among rural middle school students",
journal="Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi",
year="2009",
author="Xing, Xiu-Ya and Tao, Fang-Biao and Hao, Jia-Hu and Xu, Shao-Jun and Su, Pu-Yu and Huang, Zhao-Hui",
volume="",
number="12",
pages="21-25",
abstract="OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to examine possible relationship between attempted suicide and underachievement,bullying,low life satisfaction and low self-concept at school.<br><br>METHODS An anonymous self-report survey assessing demographic characteristics and the major risk factors of teenage attempted suicide was completed by students from 16 middle schools in grades seven to twelve in 4 counties of Anhui province (age 10 to 21 years).An anonymous questionnaire was used to rate attempted suicide,bullying involvement and learning performance.Attempted suicide was defined as: experiencing specific suicide actions at least one time during the 12 months preceding the survey.Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale and Children' s Self-concept Scale were used to evaluate satisfaction and self-conscience on and at respectively.In total,10 894 respondents substantially completed the survey.Multiple logistic-regression analyses,controlling for socio-demographic variables,was used to analyze if underachievement,bullying,low school life satisfaction and low children' s self-conscience at school had been risk factors.<br><br>RESULTS 629 participants (5.8%) reported having made at least one attempted suicide within the last 12 months.Students being underachieved were significantly having more attempted suicide events than those excellent students (X2=11.39,P=0.023).Students being both bully-victims and practiced bully were significantly more than those being only practiced bully (28.7% vs.15.8%,P&#65308;0.001),being victims (28.7% vs.10.6%,P&#65308;0.001) or having neither of them (28.7% vs.4.8%,P&#65308;0.001).<br><br>RESULTS from multiple logistic regression analyses showed that underachievement,bullying,lower school life satisfaction and low self-conscience were risk factors for attempted suicide.<br><br>CONCLUSION Data from this study confirmed that school bullying and children' s self-conscience at school were significantly associated with attempted suicide among rural middle school students in Anhui province.It is of importance to improve the school' s environments to reduce the risk of attempted suicide among this group.<p /><p>Language: zh</p>",
language="zh",
issn="0254-6450",
doi="10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2009.01.006",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2009.01.006"
}