Characteristics Of Teenagers Who Have The Idea Of Ending Life, Beware From An Early Age

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JAKARTA - Teenagers are people who still like to take risks and feel capable of doing everything. At a young age, death seemed far away so that in the end many careless (reckless) decisions were made. Their thinking is also abstract.

However, since teenagers there is a potential desire to end life when facing problems. President Director of the National Mental Health Center of Marzoeki Hospital, Mahdi Dr. dr. Nova Riyanti Yusuf, Sp.KJ explained that the idea of ending life could be detected in teenagers.

"This is my dissertation in 2019 where the data was taken at the end of 2019, before the pandemic in Jakarta. The risk is 13.8 percent of 910 teenagers (125)," Nova said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, August 1.

As for the resilience of the youth, according to him, depending on whether or not there are feelings of loneliness, the absence of hope, feeling a burden, and the desire to be a part of something. If that feeling exists, the risk of suicide will rise.

"When it was detected, the risk was 5.39 times greater to have an idea of suicide than the one who didn't," Nova said.

In 2021, Nova repeated the sampling by targeting 2,181 campus students in Bogor City. As a result, the idea of suicide was detected at 49.1 percent of the 2,181 or about 1,070 samples.

According to Nova, West Java has had a prevalence rate for depression in the last two weeks in the population aged 15 years and over the national high of 3.3 percent. More than double Jakarta (1.5 percent) based on the 2023 Indonesian Health Survey (SKI).