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Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students
BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation is the first step and a strong predictor of suicide. College students are at a considerably high risk of suicidal ideation, and smartphones are commonly used in this group. However, the relationship between suicidal ideation and smartphone use among Chinese college stud...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8867720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35223763 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.809463 |
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author | Huang, Qiuping Lin, Shuhong Li, Ying Huang, Shucai Liao, Zhenjiang Chen, Xinxin Shao, Tianli Li, Yifan Cai, Yi Qi, Jing Shen, Hongxian |
author_facet | Huang, Qiuping Lin, Shuhong Li, Ying Huang, Shucai Liao, Zhenjiang Chen, Xinxin Shao, Tianli Li, Yifan Cai, Yi Qi, Jing Shen, Hongxian |
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description | BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation is the first step and a strong predictor of suicide. College students are at a considerably high risk of suicidal ideation, and smartphones are commonly used in this group. However, the relationship between suicidal ideation and smartphone use among Chinese college students is unclear. The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of suicidal ideation among Chinese college students and its association with smartphone use and addiction factors. METHODS: A total of 439 college students participated the survey. We collected the demographic information, physical health, psychosocial factors (depressive symptoms, social support, sleep quality), characteristics of smartphone use, and mobile phone addiction (MPA). Suicidal ideation was measured with a single question, “did you feel that life was not worth living in the past 1 year?” RESULTS: The prevalence of suicidal ideation (“Yes” response) in the past year among Chinese college students was 7.5%. In binary logistic regression analysis, suicidal ideation was significantly correlated with less subjective social support (OR: 2.49, p = 0.049), lower utilization of social support (OR: 13.28, p = 0.012), more depressive symptoms (OR:4.96, p = 0.005), and more than 5 h of daily smartphone use (OR: 2.60, p = 0.025). CONCLUSION: Considering the widely use of smartphones in Chinese colleges and the correlation with suicidal ideation, excessive phone use among college students should be given more attention by administrators and health workers. It is necessary to obtain more information about the intention of smartphone use, make full use of smartphones for health education, and monitor excessive use of smartphones, while improving social support and coping mechanisms for depression, to identify suicidal ideation and prevent suicidal behavior among Chinese college students. |
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spelling | pubmed-88677202022-02-25 Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students Huang, Qiuping Lin, Shuhong Li, Ying Huang, Shucai Liao, Zhenjiang Chen, Xinxin Shao, Tianli Li, Yifan Cai, Yi Qi, Jing Shen, Hongxian Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation is the first step and a strong predictor of suicide. College students are at a considerably high risk of suicidal ideation, and smartphones are commonly used in this group. However, the relationship between suicidal ideation and smartphone use among Chinese college students is unclear. The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of suicidal ideation among Chinese college students and its association with smartphone use and addiction factors. METHODS: A total of 439 college students participated the survey. We collected the demographic information, physical health, psychosocial factors (depressive symptoms, social support, sleep quality), characteristics of smartphone use, and mobile phone addiction (MPA). Suicidal ideation was measured with a single question, “did you feel that life was not worth living in the past 1 year?” RESULTS: The prevalence of suicidal ideation (“Yes” response) in the past year among Chinese college students was 7.5%. In binary logistic regression analysis, suicidal ideation was significantly correlated with less subjective social support (OR: 2.49, p = 0.049), lower utilization of social support (OR: 13.28, p = 0.012), more depressive symptoms (OR:4.96, p = 0.005), and more than 5 h of daily smartphone use (OR: 2.60, p = 0.025). CONCLUSION: Considering the widely use of smartphones in Chinese colleges and the correlation with suicidal ideation, excessive phone use among college students should be given more attention by administrators and health workers. It is necessary to obtain more information about the intention of smartphone use, make full use of smartphones for health education, and monitor excessive use of smartphones, while improving social support and coping mechanisms for depression, to identify suicidal ideation and prevent suicidal behavior among Chinese college students. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8867720/ /pubmed/35223763 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.809463 Text en Copyright © 2022 Huang, Lin, Li, Huang, Liao, Chen, Shao, Li, Cai, Qi and Shen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Huang, Qiuping Lin, Shuhong Li, Ying Huang, Shucai Liao, Zhenjiang Chen, Xinxin Shao, Tianli Li, Yifan Cai, Yi Qi, Jing Shen, Hongxian Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students |
title | Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students |
title_full | Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students |
title_fullStr | Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students |
title_short | Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students |
title_sort | suicidal ideation is associated with excessive smartphone use among chinese college students |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8867720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35223763 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.809463 |
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