title: [Study on the attitudes toward suicide among university students in Chongqing].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the attitudes on suicide and their related factors among university students in Chongqing.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 9808 students from 11 universities in Chongqing, were chosen under stratified cluster random sampling method and had completed a questionnaire survey through the Scale of Public Attitudes on Suicide(SPAS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data showed that the scores of university students having negative or neutral attitudes towards questions including "suicide is not preventable", "suicidal behavior is not controllable or is caused by outside forces" and "suicidal behavior can(or is used to)affect the behavior of others'" were 34.28±16.44, 35.64±19.14 and 36.94±16.05 respectively. The scores of students taking neutral attitude towards questions as:"similarity of attempted and completed suicide", "negative attitudes on the behavior or on the person him/her self", "positive aspects of suicide and positive feelings about suicides"were 47.38±22.01, 51.78±17.05 and 37.77±18.12 respectively but 70.77±17.21 went to the students who had agreed with "suicide is an important social/health problem". Factors as gender, nationality, religion, history of attempted suicide and suicide exposure to others appeared having had important effects on the attitude towards suicide among college students.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is necessary to consider above mentioned factors when developing related suicide crisis intervention strategy.
authors.affiliation: Center of Psychological Health,First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-ming
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kuang
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ai
authors.forename: Jian-mei
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wo
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Dan-dan
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Lou
authors.forename: Wan-ting
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ya-juan
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.forename: Phillips
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: MR
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities