The Relationship Between Depression, Sleep Quality, and Quality of Life among People with Suicide Attempts: A Correlation Study

• Main Authors: Pien Feng-Chen, 卞鳳珍
• Other Authors: Wen-Chii Tzeng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62935859390007421919

碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 護理研究所 === 101 === Background: Suicide is a complex behavior triggered by the reciprocal influence from the physiological, psychological, social, and environmental factors, which influence could continue and lead to suicide re-attempts after attempted suicide. Hence, understanding the needs of suicide attempts becomes increasingly significant, critical frontline work in suicide prevention network and more so to the assessment of needs from suicide attempters. Purpose: To analyze the self-assessed degree of depression, sleeping condition and living quality of the suicide attempters, in addition to predicting the possible factors that lead to suicide re-attempt. Methods: The study is designed with a cross-section descriptive correlational study that adopts purposive sampling from a medical center in Taipei reporting suicide attempts. The study applies structural questionnaire survey to understand the sleeping condition, degree of depression and impact on living quality of the suicide attempters. All collected data were analyzed by SPSS software (for windows 19.0) to analysis on demographic characteristics, degree of depressions, sleeping conditions, and living quality. Results: The study findings show that there is significant impact between the sleeping quality of the suicide attempters and variables such as self-perceived health, happiness in life, health compared with the same age, and life before suicide attempts. There is a negative correlation between depressions, sleeping quality, physiological domain, psychological domain, social domain, and environmental domain, whereas there is a positive correlation between depression and sleeping quality. The survey on living quality shows that gender has significant impact on the physiological, psychological and social domain of living quality, whereas marital status has significant impact on psychological domain, occupation has significant impact on the physiological domain, income has significant impact on the physiological and environmental domain, self-perceived health has significant impact on the physiological, psychological and social domain. The health compared with the same age has significant impact on the physiological, psychological and social domain. Happiness in life has significant impact on the physiological and environmental domain. The life before suicide attempt has significant impact on the physiological, psychological and environmental domain. Whether if the suicide attempters accepting psychological treatment has significant impact on the environmental domain. The study results show that gender, work condition, and degree of depression are the risk factors affecting suicide re-attempts. Conclusion: The study results provide reference as clinical practice and applications for the improvement on the degree of depression, sleeping quality and quality of life in suicide attempt.