Research Journal of Medical Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6095ISSN: Print 1815-9346
Abstract
The main objective of the study is to analyse risk factors for suicidal thoughts among undergraduate medical students. The study is an analytical cross sectional study conducted among 536 undergraduate MBBS students of Government Medical College, Pudukkottai, Tamilnadu, India. The study protocol was presented before the institutional ethical committee for approval and got approved. Individual informed consent was obtained from the participants. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. The participants were asked to fill the forms in privacy. The confidentiality of the data collected was strictly ensured by electronic storage. Thoughts of suicide was observed among 7.8% of the participants. Twenty two of 306 female participants and 20 of 230 male participants had suicidal thoughts. Depression, anxiety and psychotism contains correlation values (r) of 0.501, 0.520 and 0.553, respectively depicting that these symptoms have a strong relationship towards the thoughts of suicide among the participants and p-values fulfill the significance. Somatization, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), interpersonal sensibility, appearance of distressing symptom, paranoid ideation, phobic anxiety and anger hostility contains the value of correlation (r) of 0.465, 0.448, 0.431, 0.330, 0.421, 0.429, 0.441 respectively showing they are having a moderate relation towards the thoughts of suicide among the participants by fulfilling the value of significance. Stress was also a significant factor for suicidal thoughts.
How to cite this article:
K. Ilamaran, J. Dinesh, M. Vijayalakshmi, R. Venkatesan and F. George. Analysing Risk Factors For Suicidal Thoughts Among Undergraduate Medical Students.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.59218/makrjms.2024.3.18.480.488
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