Abstract

Background

#Substanceuse is referring to the use of psychoactive substances like chat, cigarettes, #alcohol, and others. The use of substances particularly (#alcohol, chat, and cigarette) is a major #mentalhealth burden in developing countries including Ethiopia among #youth. #Suicideideation and an attempt are thinking or trying to kill oneself that facilitates the act of a person intentionally causing his or her death. #Suicide is one of the most serious #mentalhealthproblems and has a great social impact in the world as it is currently the third leading cause of death for #youth. #Youth is defined as the period of life between #childhood and maturity with an age interval of (15–25).

Method

A cross-sectional study design was used to assess the prevalence of #suicidalideation and attempts with #substanceuse among #youth in northwest Ethiopia. Multi-stage sampling techniques of stratified with simple random sample ware used. In the first stage, substance users are selected then as the second stage among substance users the burden of #suicide #behavior is assessed. ASIST, DASS-21, and other tools were used to assess #suicidalbehavior with #substanceuse and associated factors. Data were edited, purified, and entered into Epi-data version 4.6 before being exported to the statistical package for social sciences version 20 for analysis of bi-variables to see the associations’ p-value
https://standingabovethecrowd.com/2023/01/jamesdonaldson-on-mentalhealth-suicideideation-and-or-attempt-with-substanceuse-and-associated-factors-among-the-youth-in-northwest-ethiopia-community-based/