Barriers perceived by students with and without suicidal risk to request professional help
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https://doi.org/10.35622/j.rep.2022.01.006Keywords:
accessibility, health services, adolescents, access barriers, suicide riskAbstract
Adolescents are at high risk of suicide mortality, but their use of professional mental health services is shallow. The objective was to investigate the barriers they perceive to requesting professional help. For this, an observational study with a mixed approach was carried out in which the suicide risk was evaluated using the Plutchik scale. The perceived barriers were investigated with an open question subjected to an open-coding thematic analysis. Four hundred three high school students from Aguascalientes participated, whose suicide risk was 19%. Fourteen different barriers were recognized, of which the internal type predominated: fear and shame. At a higher risk of suicide, external walls such as family problems or teasing became more critical. When contrasting this with other studies, it is clear that the qualitative perspective provides a better understanding of subjective phenomena that underlie suicide prevention.
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