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Lee: Experience of College Students on Suicide Attempts
Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2015; 45(3): 397-411.

Published online: 30 June 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2015.45.3.397

Experience of College Students on Suicide Attempts

Yong-Mi Lee

Department of Nursing, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Lee, Yong-Mi. Department of Nursing, Kangwon National University, 1 Kangwon Daehak-gil, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea. Tel: +82-33-250-8889, Fax: +82-33-259-5636, rena@kangwon.ac.kr

Received 28 September 2014       Revised 19 October 2014       Accepted 8 April 2015

© 2015 Korean Society of Nursing Science

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the experience of Korean college students on suicide attempts.

Methods

Eight students participated and data were collected through in-depth individual interviews between September, 2011 and April, 2012. Data were analyzed using Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory method.

Results

Analysis showed that the central phenomenon of suicide attempt experience of college students was 'inextricable despair'. Causal conditions were 'sense of shame by failure to achieve perfect independence' and 'a big gap between reality and ideals'. Contextual conditions were 'extreme situation of being cornered' and 'excessive changes in emotions'. Intervening conditions were 'important others' and 'perspectives on the world'. Action/interaction strategies were 'temporary efforts' and 'gathering up one's mind'. Consequences were 'trauma as one's own hurt', 'conflict between life and death' and 'becoming mature'.

Conclusion

The results of this study provide an in-depth understanding of the experience of college students with attempted suicide. It is necessary to develop programs to prevent suicide attempts by college students and these results can be used as a basis for program development.

Keywords: Suicide, Attempted, Students, Qualitative research

Figures and Tables

Figure 1

Experience of college students on suicide attempts.

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Table 1

Relationships among Categories using Paradigm Model

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Notes

This study was supported by a 2011 Research Grant from Kangwon National University (No. C1007963-01-01).

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