dc.contributor.author | Sivertsen, Børge | |
dc.contributor.author | Hysing, Mari | |
dc.contributor.author | Knapstad, Marit | |
dc.contributor.author | Harvey, Allison G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Reneflot, Anne | |
dc.contributor.author | Lønning, Kari Jussi | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Connor, Rory | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-14T06:01:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-14T06:01:01Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-05-13T12:09:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | BJPsych Open. 2019, 5 (2), . | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 2056-4724 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2597460 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background
Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm (NSSH) are major public health concerns that affect millions of young people worldwide. Consequently, there is a strong need for up-to-date epidemiological data in this population.
Aims
To provide prevalence and trend estimates of suicidal thoughts and behaviours and NSSH thoughts and behaviour in university students.
Method
Data are from a 2018 national health survey for higher education in Norway. A total of 50 054 full-time students (69.1% women) aged 18–35 years participated (response rate 31%). Suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and NSSH were assessed with three items drawn from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, and thoughts of NSSH were assessed with one item from the Child and Adolescent Self-Harm in Europe study.
Results
Lifetime suicidal thoughts were reported by 21.0%, and 7.2% reported having such thoughts within the past year. In total, 4.2% reported a suicide attempt, of whom 0.4% reported attempting suicide within the past year. The prevalence of lifetime NSSH behaviour and thoughts was 19.6% and 22.6%, respectively. All four suicidal behaviour and NSSH variables were more common among students who were single, living alone and with a low annual income, as well as among immigrants. There was an increase in suicidal thoughts from 2010 (7.7%) to 2018 (11.4%), which was evident in both men and women.
Conclusions
The observed high and increasing prevalence of suicidal thoughts and NSSH among college and university students is alarming, underscoring the need for further research, preferably registry-linked studies, to confirm whether the reported prevalence is representative of the student population as a whole. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | nb_NO |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm among university students: prevalence study | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 8 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 5 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | BJPsych Open | nb_NO |
dc.source.issue | 2 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1192/bjo.2019.4 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1697363 | |
dc.description.localcode | © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2019 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work. | nb_NO |
cristin.unitcode | 194,65,35,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for psykisk helse | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |