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What Prevents Adolescents from Seeking Help After a Suicide Education Program?
Author(s) -
Cigularov Konstantin,
Chen Peter Y.,
Thurber Beverly W.,
Stallones Lorann
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1521/suli.2008.38.1.74
Subject(s) - friendship , suicide prevention , closeness , poison control , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , limiting , self destructive behavior , occupational safety and health , psychology , overconfidence effect , help seeking , medicine , psychiatry , medical emergency , mental health , social psychology , mathematical analysis , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pathology , engineering
Perceived barriers to help‐seeking among adolescents attending a suicide education program were examined. A total of 854 high school students in Colorado completed one of two questionnaires, measuring barriers to help‐seeking for self or friend. The most prominent barriers for self were: inability to discuss problems with adults, self‐overconfidence, fear of hospitalization, and lack of closeness to school adults. The most prominent barriers for troubled friends were: friendship concerns, unapproachability of school adults, fear of friend's hospitalization, and underestimating friend's problems. Results reveal multiple constraints limiting the program's utilization, supporting the need for comprehensive system approaches to suicide prevention.