Knowledge of the GNM Students Regarding Suicide Prevention in the Govt. AMT School, GMCH Jammu J&K UT India: A Survey

Abstract

Introduction: In recent times, there have been more evident cases of nursing students in the first year of their course attempting suicide because of mental stress, frustration and workload they get in their first year, which they are not accustomed to handling. This study is going to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs concerning their capability to mitigate the rate of suicides among students. Need of this study: This study is very much significant in today’s time as it measures the effectiveness of the different “suicidal prevention awareness programs” the increasing rate of suicides among nursing students is an elevating concern in almost every part of the world. This needs to be mitigated as soon as possible by finding out the key reasons behind such tragic attempts. This study is significant as it helps in evaluating the cause along with the assessment of some other measures of suicide prevention as well. Research Methodology: "Quasi-experimental method, Research design is a “one group pre-test, post-test "was used. Self-Structured Questionnaires tool was developed to research about awareness about suicidal prevention among GNM students.“self-Structured Questionnaire” has been developed in order to collect data from the nursing students The information has been gathered from students regarding “suicidal prevention awareness” .approximately 15 to 25 minutes” has been taken for collecting data by Universal Sampling Technique. Results: Showed that majority of the participants are in between the age of (62%) 18 to 20 years, there are 60% of female participants and 40% are males, majority of the participants (72.2%) belong to the first year. The responses of participants have derived the mean and standard deviation values of 3.63 and 0.832 respectively, suggesting that the majority of them believe depression to be the main reason behind suicide. that most participants are not aware of the causes of suicide and are willing to do those themselves. Conclusion: The study has provided a brief idea about the importance of prevention programs to aware people about this mental health problem.