“Suicide perceptions among adolescents”, A comprehensive research study.

Masters of public health students, Ms. Chloe Deflorimonte and Ms. Vaidehi Jokhakar along with their external guide, Dr. Elizabeth Viscegllia from Mount Sinai Hospital, New York conducted a research study that aimed to understand attitudes towards mental health and suicide perception among adolescents in Gujarat.

The research fellows came to The MINDS Foundation Vadodara Site and stayed at the facility for eight weeks from June 22nd, 2018.

The objective of the study was to understand perceptions of suicide in students and to provide emergency response to students who were found with mental health issues through this study. The study consisted of formal questionnaire for participants and a semi-structured interview with individual students to understand more about their mental health needs and preventive ideas for suicidal idealization.

The outcome of the research helped the MINDS Foundation in developing a need-based program regarding mental health awareness in communities that we are currently working with. Also, this research would not be possible without our third academic partner GMERS, Gotri General Hospital Vadodara, Dept. of Psychiatry and we are particularly thankful for Dr. Sandip Shah H.O.D dept of Psychiatry to provide us with the ethics approval in the very short time span and for providing with special provisions.