A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding identification and prevention of suicide among people residing at selected urban area of gwalior city. (Preprint)
Authors: Jadon Ravindra Singh 
Published: November 2021

BACKGROUND

Suicide is an extensively widespread reason for death in each of the age groups of 15–29 years and 15–39 years. India now reports over a third of the world’s yearly female suicides and approximately a fourth of male suicides, a crucial increase in its global share from 1990. Most people are committing suicide due to various factors like a failure, stress, and emotional disturbance. The health care professional is primarily aiming at preventing suicidal incidence by creating awareness on suicidal ideation and prevention. Most people don’t know that they are having any symptoms of suicide or any other mental illness. Caregivers of mentally ill patients have an essential role in preventing suicidal cases. The sufficient knowledge of caregiver on observing danger signs of the suicide and knowledge of caregiver considering the prevention of suicide prevent the incidence of suicide in mentally ill patients. Aim: The present study focus to assess the knowledge of people considering identification and prevention of suicide and find the relation between the research outcomes and the demographic variables. Material and method: A descriptive study was conducted, using a 20items structured questionnaire. 100 participants were chosen for the study through non-probability purposive sampling techniques. Result: the obtained result data revealed that the maximum number of participants were female 64%, majority 44% belonged to the 46-55 year of age group. Outcomes related to knowledge score of participants regarding the identification of suicide 47% of people had average knowledge, 40% people had poor knowledge and 13% participants had good knowledge and finding related to knowledge score of people regarding prevention of suicide was 52% participants were average knowledge, 6% participants had good knowledge and 42% participants had poor knowledge. Conclusion: from the above finding, the researcher concluded that there is a great need for awareness regarding suicide. If a family person can identify the suicidal thoughts, then it will decrease the suicidal rate. The government is organizing various workshops, mass media informative booklets, and community health programs to create awareness and knowledge so this research study will be helpful to identify the further objective to plan the awareness program.

OBJECTIVE

1. To assess the knowledge about identification of suicide among people residing at a selected urban area of Gwalior city
2. To assess the knowledge about prevention of suicide among people residing in the selected urban area of Gwalior city
3. To find out the League between the finding and demographic variables.

METHODS

RESEARCH APPROACH
A quantitative research approach was adopted.

RESEARCH DESIGN
A descriptive design was adopted for this study.

VARIABLES
Knowledge and information observing identification and prevention of suicide.

SETTING OF STUDY
The urban area of Gwalior city was selected as the setting of the study.

POPULATION
The population was selected for the study is people residing in the urban areas of Gwalior city

SAMPLE
A person who is living in an urban area of Gwalior city and only those who fulfilled the inclusion criteria.

RESULTS

The result shows that maximum participants were having average knowledge and average knowledge is not better knowledge so care knowledge level can be increased by the workshop, community health education program regarding suicide identification and prevention.

CONCLUSIONS

The evaluations of this study indicated that there is a need for awareness programs for people regarding suicidal prevention and ideation. This type of program will help to improve the knowledge of the common person in the community. It will help to decrease the suicidal rate and helps to early detection of suicidal behavior.
The result shows that maximum participants were having average knowledge and average knowledge is not better knowledge so care knowledge level can be increased by the workshop, community health education program regarding suicide identification and prevention.