Factors associated with suicidal ideation among male college students
International Journal of Development Research
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among male college students
Received 27th February, 2020; Received in revised form 04th March, 2020; Accepted 18th April, 2020; Published online 30th May, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Luís Paulo Souza e Souza et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study aimed to estimate factors associated with suicidal ideation among male students from a public university in Brazil. This is a cross-sectional, analytical study conducted with 375 students from a federal university in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data were collected in 2019, using a questionnaire composed of questions from validated instruments. The variable "suicidal ideation" was investigated by the question: "During the last 12 months, have you seriously considered a suicide attempt?". Prevalence ratios (PR) and their respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were adjusted by poisson's multivariate regression technique. The prevalence of suicidal ideation was 17,9%. Being in the age groups 34-41 years (PR:0,82; 95% CI:0,77-0,88) and ≥42 years (PR: 0,84; 95% CI:0,79-0,90), having no religion (PR:1,09; 95% CI:1,02-1,17), have health coverage, including insurance or prepaid plan (PR:0,92; 95% CI:0,86-0,98), and have used pills or steroid injection without a prescription during life 10 to 39 times (PR:1,67; 95% CI:1,60-1,73) and ≥40 times (PR:1,31; 95% CI:1,12-1,25) remained independently associated with suicidal ideation after multivariate data adjustment. It is essential to understand the group of university men as a population in the process of behavioral transition and more susceptible to the adoption of behaviors that compromise their health, mainly related to suicide.
