Exploring suicide ideation in university students: sleep quality, social media, self-esteem, and barriers to seeking psychological help

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The purpose of the current study is to analyze how variations in suicidal ideation scores can relate to sleep quality, social media consumption, self-esteem, and perceived barriers to seeking psychological help in a sample of university students in Honduras. A quantitative cross-sectional design was used. Self-reported data was collected from a non-random sample of 910 university students in Honduras; their average age was 24.03 years ( SD=6.05). Most respondents were women (67%) with men accounting for 33% of the sample. Measurements included item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Single-Item Sleep Quality Scale, Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale, Barriers to Seeking Psychological Help Scale for College Students, and a self-reported questionnaire on social media. In response to the query, “Over the past two weeks, how frequently have you experienced thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself?” 54% ( n=495) of participants indicated “not at all” 18% ( n=168) reported “several days” 14% ( n=129) responded “more than half of the days” and 13% ( n=118) stated “nearly every day”. The results from the ordinal logistic regression model indicate that sleep quality and self-esteem serve as protective factors associated with decreased suicide ideation. At the same time, a higher number of social media platforms used per week and perceived barriers to seeking psychological help increase suicide ideation. Altogether, these variables explained 19% of the variance in suicidal ideation scores. Suicidal ideation is highly prevalent among the sampled university students.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Psychiatry

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Front Psychiatry

Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Psychiatry

Title: Frontiers in Psychiatry

Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.

ISSN (Electronic): 1664-0640

Publication date (Electronic): 05 April 2024

Publication date Collection: 2024

Volume: 15

Electronic Location Identifier: 1352889

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[1] School of Psychological Sciences, National Autonomous University of Honduras , Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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Edited by: Jean Marc Guile, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France

Reviewed by: Saeid Komasi, Mind GPS Institute, Iran

Daniela Polese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

*Correspondence: Miguel Landa-Blanco, miguel.landa@ 123456unah.edu.hn

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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1352889

PMC ID: 11027559

PubMed ID: 38645419

SO-VID: 5306988e-92ac-4fc2-bcaf-fad0132db080

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