1 Department of Mental Health Research, National Center for Mental Health, Seoul, South Korea.
2 Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
Crisis. 2019 Jan;40(1):27-35. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000528. Epub 2018 Jun 21.
A suicidal person can go through different stages that include suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. For a few individuals, these can end up with suicide. However, there have been no studies investigating any differences in attitudes toward suicides among individuals with no suicidal thoughts, those with suicidal thoughts, and those with suicide attempts.
This study was carried out to compare attitudes toward suicide among three different groups: individuals with a history of no suicidal thoughts, those with a history of suicidal thoughts, and those with a history of suicide attempts.
To examine Koreans' attitudes toward suicide, we analyzed the data from the 2013 National Suicide Survey involving 1,500 participants aged between 19 and 75 years.
Different attitudes toward suicide were found among the three groups. Persons reporting that they had made a suicide attempt in their life showed the most permissive attitudes toward suicide.
Since this research is based on cross-sectional data, it is difficult to eliminate the possibility of changes in attitude toward suicide completely after having a suicidal thought and suicide attempt.
These results can be a useful source for constructing effective messages for suicide prevention campaigns and can ultimately contribute to an improvement in the public's perceptions of suicide in the future.
有自杀倾向的人可能会经历不同的阶段，包括自杀念头和自杀企图。对于一些人来说，这些最终可能会导致自杀。然而，目前还没有研究调查过没有自杀念头的人、有自杀念头的人和有自杀企图的人对自杀的态度有何不同。
本研究旨在比较三组人群对自杀的态度：没有自杀念头的人群、有自杀念头的人群和有自杀企图的人群。
为了研究韩国人对自杀的态度，我们分析了 2013 年全国自杀调查的数据，该调查涉及 1500 名年龄在 19 至 75 岁之间的参与者。
三组人群对自杀的态度存在差异。报告曾有过自杀企图的人对自杀的态度最为宽容。
由于本研究基于横断面数据，因此完全排除在有自杀念头和自杀企图后态度发生变化的可能性是困难的。
这些结果可以为制定有效的自杀预防运动信息提供有用的资源，并最终有助于改善公众对未来自杀的看法。
