Professional help seeking for suicidal ideation among Chinese and Australian university students
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description: Introduction: Suicide is a leading cause of death among the university-aged population. Alarmingly, a large proportion of students with suicidal ideation or behaviour do not seek help from health services. This thesis aims to identify the factors associated with professional help seeking for suicidal ideation among Chinese and Australian university students and to develop a trial online program to facilitate help seeking. Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify factors that may influence professional help seeking for suicidal ideation and behaviour. Two hundred and eight Chinese university students and 128 Australian university students were subsequently recruited to complete an online cross-sectional survey to further test the influence of the identified factors on professional help seeking for suicidal ideation. The results of this survey were then used to guide the development of a two-module online psychoeducational program (ProHelp). The effectiveness of this program was evaluated through a pilot randomised controlled study of 156 Chinese university students and 101 Australian university students. Results: Low perceived need for treatment, great self-reliance, low suicide literacy, and stigmatising attitudes were identified as important barriers to professional help seeking in both the systematic review and the cross-sectional surveys. In particular, greater self-reliance was significantly associated with negative help-seeking attitudes for suicidal ideation in both China and Australia. Attribution of suicidal individuals to isolation (p = .035) was negatively associated with help-seeking attitudes in China, while glorification (p = .008) and stigmatising attitudes (p = .025) of suicidal individuals were negatively associated with help-seeking beliefs and attitudes respectively in Australia. Limited suicide prevention knowledge (p = .042) in China and less supportive family relationship (p = .006) in Australia were associated with lower help-seek…
abstract: Introduction: Suicide is a leading cause of death among the university-aged population. Alarmingly, a large proportion of students with suicidal ideation or behaviour do not seek help from health services. This thesis aims to identify the factors associated with professional help seeking for suicidal ideation among Chinese and Australian university students and to develop a trial online program to facilitate help seeking. Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify factors that may influence professional help seeking for suicidal ideation and behaviour. Two hundred and eight Chinese university students and 128 Australian university students were subsequently recruited to complete an online cross-sectional survey to further test the influence of the identified factors on professional help seeking for suicidal ideation. The results of this survey were then used to guide the development of a two-module online psychoeducational program (ProHelp). The effectiveness of this program was evaluated through a pilot randomised controlled study of 156 Chinese university students and 101 Australian university students. Results: Low perceived need for treatment, great self-reliance, low suicide literacy, and stigmatising attitudes were identified as important barriers to professional help seeking in both the systematic review and the cross-sectional surveys. In particular, greater self-reliance was significantly associated with negative help-seeking attitudes for suicidal ideation in both China and Australia. Attribution of suicidal individuals to isolation (p = .035) was negatively associated with help-seeking attitudes in China, while glorification (p = .008) and stigmatising attitudes (p = .025) of suicidal individuals were negatively associated with help-seeking beliefs and attitudes respectively in Australia. Limited suicide prevention knowledge (p = .042) in China and less supportive family relationship (p = .006) in Australia were associated with lower help-seek…
author: Han, Jin
language: en
keywords: Suicide, help seeking, university students
date published: 2017
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:07:27Z
provider: Australian Catholic University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Australian Catholic University

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