Suicide ideation and/or attempt with substance use and associated factors among the youth in northwest Ethiopia, community-based
In: BMC Psychiatry, Jg. 22 (2022), Heft 1, S. 1-11
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Abstract Background Substance use is referring to the use of psychoactive substances like chat, cigarettes, alcohol, and others. The use of substances particularly (alcohol, chat, and cigarette) is a major mental health burden in developing countries including Ethiopia among youth. Suicide ideation and an attempt are thinking or trying to kill oneself that facilitates the act of a person intentionally causing his or her death. Suicide is one of the most serious mental health problems and has a great social impact in the world as it is currently the third leading cause of death for youth. Youth is defined as the period of life between childhood and maturity with an age interval of (15–25). Method A cross-sectional study design was used to assess the prevalence of suicidal ideation and attempts with substance use among youth in northwest Ethiopia. Multi-stage sampling techniques of stratified with simple random sample ware used. In the first stage, substance users are selected then as the second stage among substance users the burden of suicide behavior is assessed. ASIST, DASS-21, and other tools were used to assess suicidal behavior with substance use and associated factors. Data were edited, purified, and entered into Epi-data version 4.6 before being exported to the statistical package for social sciences version 20 for analysis of bi-variables to see the associations’ p-value
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Suicide ideation and/or attempt with substance use and associated factors among the youth in northwest Ethiopia, community-based
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Melkam, Mamaru ; Demilew, Demeke ; Kassew, Tilahun ; Fanta, Bruik ; Yitayih, Sewbesew ; Alemu, Kassahun ; Muhammed, Yasin ; Getnet, Berhanie ; Abetu, Eden ; Gebrekidan Ewnetu Tarekegn ; Oumer, Mohammed ; Nenko, Goshu |
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Zeitschrift: | BMC Psychiatry, Jg. 22 (2022), Heft 1, S. 1-11 |
Veröffentlichung: | BMC, 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1471-244X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12888-022-04157-x |
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