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ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Kittiwan Thiam-kaew

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Depression and suicidal ideation among thai adolescence

แหล่งที่มา/Source: The 1st Asia Pacific Regional Conference of The International Association for Suicide Prevention (AISP), 6-8 October 2004, The Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok Thailand, Page 49

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objectives: To survey the state of depression, suicidal ideation and related factors among Thai adolescence. Methods: The data were collected from 4,885 adolescence,a ge 15-19 years, in four regions of the country through a multi-stage sampling method. The research questionnaire included demographic information, suicidal thoughts scale and Beck Depression Inventory. Data were analyzed by using Chi-square to examine the differences of the state of depression and the suicidal ideation among the adolescence of each region of the country. the logistic regression analysis was used to explore the risk factors of the suicidal ideation. Results: Sixty seven percent of the samples had depression ranged from borderline clinical depression to severe depression. there was a significant difference od depression among adolescence from each region (p‹0.05), where the adolescences from the north-east ranked first with 71.6% of depressive symptoms, follow by the adolescences from the north 68.7% the south 67.1% and the central region 62.7% respectively. there were several factors related significantly with severe depression. there included being male gender, younger age, marital status of the parents, unemployed father or mother, having seriuos conflicts in the family that may led to physical abuse, having conflict with parent, living in crowed house, economic status of family, and the adolescences with inadequate allowance. Suicidal ideation occurred during the last 1 month was found in 13.0% of the adolescence and there were no significant difference among regions. Of those who had suicidal ideation, 74.4% had the idea only, 8.9% had a plan but did not try, and 6.8% had tried without success. There were some factors related significantly with the present of suicidal ideation in adolescences. Compared to adolescences of 15 years old, those with age of 18-years had significantly 37.4% lower suicidal ideation, while those with age of 16, 17 and 19 years had no difference. The adolescences who lived with their relatives other than parent had 1.7 times more frequent suicidal ideation than those lived with parents. Conclusion: The prevalence of suicidal ideation among Thai adolescences was rather high. In order to solve this problem, risk factors identified in this study should be reduced as much as possible.

Keywords: suicide, psychiatry, depression, depress, depressive, Thai adolescence, suicidal ideation

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2004

Address: Suan Prung Psychiatric Hospital, 131 Chang Lor Road, Muang, Chaing Mai,50200, Thailand

Code: 20040000107

ISSN/ISBN: -

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Paper.

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