Being a woman: a risk factor for suicidal behaviours? Lessons from suicide prevention at schools

• Author(s): Santos, José Carlos Pereira dos ; Quaresma, Maria Helena dos Santos ; Loureiro, Cândida Rosalinda Exposto Costa ; Simões, Rosa Maria Pereira ; Façanha, Jorge Daniel Neto ; Erse, Maria Pedro Queiroz de Azevedo ; Marques, Lúcia Amélia Fernandes Alves ; Matos, Maria Ermelinda Teixeira Smpaio
• Date: 2018
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Suicidal behaviors; Adolescents; school; prevention
• Document Type: Other
• Language: English

Description

In this sample of 17,477 adolescents, 49.3% of students were girls. During the past seven years of the project, girls showed lower well-being and self-concept scores and more depressive symptomatology than boys. No statistically significant differences were found in the coping domain. Similar results were obtained among 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grade students.