- Title
- Prevalence of suicidal behaviour among nursing and midwifery college students in Ghana
- Creator
- Quarshie, Emmanuel Nii‐Boye; Cheataa-Plange, Haziel Vera; Annor, Francis; Asare-Doku, Winifred; Lartey, Joshua King Safo
- Relation
- Nursing Open Vol. 6, Issue 3, p. 897-906
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.271
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Aim: To provide exploratory and descriptive evidence on the prevalence estimate and some demographic correlates of suicidal behaviour among nursing and midwifery college students in Ghana. Design:We used a cross‐sectional survey design. Method: An anonymous survey involving a randomly selected sample of 305 nursing and midwifery college students was conducted in March–May 2017. The Suicide Behavior Questionnaire‐Revised was used to assess suicidal behaviour (i.e., ideation, planning, threat and attempt) and suicidal behaviour risk. Results: The lifetime prevalence of suicide ideations (15.4%; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.11–0.20), plans (6.6%; 95% CI = 0.04–0.10), attempts (2.3%; 95% CI = 0.01–0.05), threats (13.4%; 95% CI = 0.10–0.18) and 12‐month prevalence of ideations (21.3%; 95% CI = 0.17–0.26) are comparable to estimates found in both high‐income and low‐ and middle‐income countries. However, associations between the demographic variables studied and suicidal behaviour risk were not statistically significant.
- Subject
- Ghana; midwifery; nurses; students; suicidal behaviour
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1415157
- Identifier
- uon:36865
- Identifier
- ISSN:2054-1058
- Rights
- © 2019 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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