title: Feasibility of a web-based suicide awareness programme for Asian American college students.
abstract: The Truth about Suicide video has been widely used but has never been empirically tested regarding its cultural appropriateness for Asian Americans. The purpose of the study was to determine the feasibility of using the video in a web-based suicide awareness programme for Asian American and non-Hispanic white college students.
  
  
  
  A cross-sectional, comparative, web-based study was conducted with 227 Asian Americans and 204 non-Hispanic whites at a university in the Midwest region of the USA. Study participants completed a questionnaire measuring their cultural orientation and attitudes towards suicide, watched the 27 min video, completed a debriefing session and evaluated the video's overall suitability.
  
  
  
  Asian Americans rated the suicide awareness video significantly lower for cultural relevance than did non-Hispanic whites (F=5.479, p=0.02). Collectivist cultural orientation was a significant predictor for cultural relevance, credibility and appeal; however, evaluation of the video's cultural relevance was negatively affected by Asian ethnicity.
  
  
  
  Cultural orientation and race/ethnicity should be strongly considered when web-based suicide awareness programmes are developed for college students.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing and the Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Heeseung
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hanjong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Marie L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Suarez
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Chang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Zhongsheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.|Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science, Center of Excellence in Palliative Care Research, College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Diana J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wilkie
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian; D001290:Attitude; D001364:Awareness; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D054521:Cultural Competency; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D013334:Students; D013405:Suicide; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D044465:White People; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Asian; College students; Culture; Depression; Suicide; Web-based study