@article{ref1,
title="Study on the attitudes toward suicide among university students in Chongqing",
journal="Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi",
year="2013",
author="Xu, Xiao-ming and Kuang, Li and Ai, Ming and Chen, Jian-mei and Wang, Wo and Gan, Yao and Zeng, Yan and Lou, Dan-dan and Liu, Wan-ting and Niu, Ya-juan and Mr, Phillips",
volume="",
number="12",
pages="569-572",
abstract="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;OBJECTIVE&lt;/b&gt;To explore the attitudes on suicide and their related factors among university students in Chongqing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;METHODS&lt;/b&gt;A total of 9808 students from 11 universities in Chongqing, were chosen under stratified cluster random sampling method and had completed a questionnaire survey through the Scale of Public Attitudes on Suicide(SPAS).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESULTS&lt;/b&gt;Data showed that the scores of university students having negative or neutral attitudes towards questions including &quot;suicide is not preventable&quot;, &quot;suicidal behavior is not controllable or is caused by outside forces&quot; and &quot;suicidal behavior can(or is used to)affect the behavior of others'&quot; were 34.28&plusmn;16.44, 35.64&plusmn;19.14 and 36.94&plusmn;16.05 respectively. The scores of students taking neutral attitude towards questions as:&quot;similarity of attempted and completed suicide&quot;, &quot;negative attitudes on the behavior or on the person him/her self&quot;, &quot;positive aspects of suicide and positive feelings about suicides&quot;were 47.38&plusmn;22.01, 51.78&plusmn;17.05 and 37.77&plusmn;18.12 respectively but 70.77&plusmn;17.21 went to the students who had agreed with &quot;suicide is an important social/health problem&quot;. Factors as gender, nationality, religion, history of attempted suicide and suicide exposure to others appeared having had important effects on the attitude towards suicide among college students.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONCLUSION&lt;/b&gt;It is necessary to consider above mentioned factors when developing related suicide crisis intervention strategy.&lt;/p&gt;<p /><p>Language: zh</p>",
language="zh",
issn="0254-6450",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}