Prevalence and factors associated with suicidal ideation amongst college students in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa.

4 There appears to be an increasing trend towards suicidal behaviour in the past 15 years, and this calls for preventative intervention. 5 Suicidal behaviour encompasses suicidal ideation, deliberate self-harm and completed suicide. 6 Suicidal ideation has been identified as an important precursor of completed suicides, and young people with suicidal ideation have a higher risk of committing suicide than those without ideation. 7 , 8 Similarly, Montier et al.

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