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Suicide Attempts among School-Attending Adolescents in Mongolia: Associated Factors and Gender Differences

Attempting suicide is an important risk factor that can lead to suicide death. The aim of the current study was to examine the prevalence of suicide attempts and to identify the gender-specific predictors of suicide among adolescents in Mongolia. We analyzed data from the 2019 Mongolian Global Schoo...

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Autores principales: Badarch, Javzan, Chuluunbaatar, Bayar, Batbaatar, Suvd, Paulik, Edit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270685
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052991
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author Badarch, Javzan
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description Attempting suicide is an important risk factor that can lead to suicide death. The aim of the current study was to examine the prevalence of suicide attempts and to identify the gender-specific predictors of suicide among adolescents in Mongolia. We analyzed data from the 2019 Mongolian Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS) conducted nationwide among 13–18-year-old students. Univariable and multivariable analyses were performed to assess the correlates of suicide attempts. Overall, 32.1% of the adolescents reported to have had suicide attempts. Multivariable analysis showed a significant association in the total sample of suicide attempts with lack of close friends, anxiety, injury and violence, smoking and alcohol drinking, and sexual intercourse. Male suicide attempters were less likely to have close friends and more likely to have injuries, been physically attacked, been bullied, smoke, drink alcohol, and have had sexual intercourse. Within the female subgroup, anxiety, injury and violence, smoking and alcohol drinking significantly increased the odds of reporting suicide attempts. Increase of the student’s age by one year decreased the odds ratio of suicide attempts. Nearly one in three students had had a suicide attempt. Several factors, including mental distress, violence, and risky behaviors were found to be associated with suicide attempts. These can aid in designing intervention strategies for preventing suicidal behaviors among adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-89102742022-03-11 Suicide Attempts among School-Attending Adolescents in Mongolia: Associated Factors and Gender Differences Badarch, Javzan Chuluunbaatar, Bayar Batbaatar, Suvd Paulik, Edit Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Attempting suicide is an important risk factor that can lead to suicide death. The aim of the current study was to examine the prevalence of suicide attempts and to identify the gender-specific predictors of suicide among adolescents in Mongolia. We analyzed data from the 2019 Mongolian Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS) conducted nationwide among 13–18-year-old students. Univariable and multivariable analyses were performed to assess the correlates of suicide attempts. Overall, 32.1% of the adolescents reported to have had suicide attempts. Multivariable analysis showed a significant association in the total sample of suicide attempts with lack of close friends, anxiety, injury and violence, smoking and alcohol drinking, and sexual intercourse. Male suicide attempters were less likely to have close friends and more likely to have injuries, been physically attacked, been bullied, smoke, drink alcohol, and have had sexual intercourse. Within the female subgroup, anxiety, injury and violence, smoking and alcohol drinking significantly increased the odds of reporting suicide attempts. Increase of the student’s age by one year decreased the odds ratio of suicide attempts. Nearly one in three students had had a suicide attempt. Several factors, including mental distress, violence, and risky behaviors were found to be associated with suicide attempts. These can aid in designing intervention strategies for preventing suicidal behaviors among adolescents. MDPI 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8910274/ /pubmed/35270685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052991 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_fullStr Suicide Attempts among School-Attending Adolescents in Mongolia: Associated Factors and Gender Differences
title_full_unstemmed Suicide Attempts among School-Attending Adolescents in Mongolia: Associated Factors and Gender Differences
title_short Suicide Attempts among School-Attending Adolescents in Mongolia: Associated Factors and Gender Differences
title_sort suicide attempts among school-attending adolescents in mongolia: associated factors and gender differences
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270685
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052991
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