Citation

Kolves K, Tran US, Voracek M. Percept. Mot. Skills 2007; 105(1): 3-7.

Affiliation

Suicidology Institute, Estonian Centre of Behavioral and Health Sciences, Tallinn.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17918542

Abstract

Knowledge about suicide might be positively correlated with local suicide prevalence. This hypothesis was tested with a sample of 107 medical and social science undergraduates from Estonia, a country with a high suicide rate, using Hubbard and McIntosh's 1992 Revised Facts on Suicide Quiz. Compared (independent-groups t tests) with a sample of undergraduates from Austria, which has a markedly lower suicide rate, Estonians presented significantly higher overall knowledge about suicide (d = 0.39), particularly concerning demographic and epidemiological facts about suicide (d = 0.77) but not pertaining to clinical and interpersonal knowledge contents (d = -0.06). Study limitations and suggestions for extension of this preliminary inquiry are discussed.

Language: en