Volume 28, Issue 147, May 2024

Prevalence and risk factors of suicidal ideation among Saudi college students in the city of Jeddah

Nawaf Theeb Al Otaibi^♦, Mohamad Mustafa O Kritam, Obada S Aksimi, Ahmed M Batis, Qusai W Baeisa, Muhannad T Alsharif

Medical Student, MBBS Program, Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah-21461, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Nawaf T Al Otaibi, Medical Student, MBBS Program, Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah-21461, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Suicide is a bad result of multiple reasons that put a lot of pressure on college students who find that death is the way to escape and get rid of all the problems they come across. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence, identify risk factors, and predict individual-level risk for future or persistent suicidal ideations among college students in the city of Jeddah. Methodology: A structured questionnaire was employed as a study tool. This tool was created after consulting relevant studies. The questionnaire consisted of 40 questions, classified into five main sections. The first one contained demographic data and academic performance-characteristic questions. The second section contained the psychological and health problem questions. The third section included the suicidal screening using the Columbia–Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), which is a screening and assessment tool that provides critical information about the presence or absence of suicidal thinking, the intensity of those thoughts, and the presence or absence of prior suicide attempts. The fourth section contained the burnout screening by the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI). It is considered as a valid and reliable tool for assessing personal and study-related burnout. Conclusions: We concluded that the suicidal ideation is an increasing concern among college students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Approximately a quarter of participants expressed wishing they were dead in the previous year, and nearly 10% considered suicide.

Keywords: Suicide Ideation, Suicide Attempt, Sadness, Burnout

Medical Science, 2024, 28, e41ms3336

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v28i147.e41ms3336

Published: 18 May 2024