Feasibility of a web-based suicide awareness programme for Asian American college students.

Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101552874 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2044-6055 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 20446055 NLM ISO Abbreviation: BMJ Open Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: [London] : BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2011-

Asian* ; Attitude* ; Culture* ; Suicide* ; Universities* ; White People*; Health Education/*methods; Adolescent ; Adult ; Awareness ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Cultural Competency ; Female ; Humans ; Internet ; Male ; Midwestern United States ; Students ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Young Adult

Objective: The Truth about Suicide video has been widely used but has never been empirically tested regarding its cultural appropriateness for Asian Americans. The purpose of the study was to determine the feasibility of using the video in a web-based suicide awareness programme for Asian American and non-Hispanic white college students.
Methods: A cross-sectional, comparative, web-based study was conducted with 227 Asian Americans and 204 non-Hispanic whites at a university in the Midwest region of the USA. Study participants completed a questionnaire measuring their cultural orientation and attitudes towards suicide, watched the 27 min video, completed a debriefing session and evaluated the video's overall suitability.
Results: Asian Americans rated the suicide awareness video significantly lower for cultural relevance than did non-Hispanic whites (F=5.479, p=0.02). Collectivist cultural orientation was a significant predictor for cultural relevance, credibility and appeal; however, evaluation of the video's cultural relevance was negatively affected by Asian ethnicity.
Conclusions: Cultural orientation and race/ethnicity should be strongly considered when web-based suicide awareness programmes are developed for college students.
Competing Interests: Conflicts of Interest: None declared.
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Keywords: Asian; College students; Culture; Depression; Suicide; Web-based study

Date Created: 20161223 Date Completed: 20171127 Latest Revision: 20240327

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PMC5223721

10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013466

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