Suicide Prevention For U.P.

Students
- Costuna, Patricia B.
• Among 8,761 students from Grades 7-9, Year 4 in the Philippines:
11.6% among 13 to 17 year olds considered suicide
16.8% among 13 to 17 year olds attempted suicide

• - 2015 World Health Organization Global school-based survey

- https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/in-depth/211671-suicide-cases-mental-health-illness-youth-
rising-philippines
- “At least one per day would come in the emergency room for a suicide attempt, one young person,”
said Dr Constantine Chua, chief resident of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in an interview with Rappler.

- Latest available data on the Philippines recorded by the WHO, however, reported over 2,000 cases
of suicide from 2000 to 2012 with majority of individuals dying by suicide also aged between 15 to
29 years old.

- Tatlo na ang nagpakamatay ngayong taon.

• A student of the University of the Philippines, Tristan Yuvienco, won a best thesis award for a
comprehensive paper he wrote on mental depression among college students in Metro Manila.
• Yuvienco made a survey involving a sample size of 135 students, ages 16 to 24. They are
predominantly students of the University of the Philippines Diliman and Manila, with some coming
from the University of Santo Tomas, De La Salle University, Ateneo de Manila University and Far
Eastern University. According to his survey, 96 percent of the participants reported having
experienced an episode of moderately intense to very intense depression during their stay in
school. Academic work is the biggest factor that gave them “depressed feelings,” followed by family
issues and relationship problems.
• Yuvienco also found that more than 50 percent of the students who experienced depression felt
lack of understanding from friends and family. This finding, that most depressed students find no
empathy from people close to them, is an important observation. The lack of empathy aggravates
depression. And a depressed person’s need for empathy points to the kind of treatment that can be
effective.
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- Our challenge is not to educate the people.

We are trying to get the people CHANGE
WHAT THEY DO.
7 steps to social change
• Knowledge
- What is the problem?
- Involvement of students to the existing
programs
- What costs the inaction?
- It is not relatable to ALL students.
• Desire
- Imagining yourself in a different future.
- Emotional stimulation of raw emotions.
- “I won’t let my friend suffer like that. It
it makes me sad.”
• Skills
- Rational
- Knowing what to do
- Breaking the actions down into simple
steps.
- “Words not to say to a depressed friend.”
• Optimism
- The belief that that success is probable.
- “Hindi ka lang basta kaibigan.”

• Facilitation
- Having outside support.
- How to overcome practical obstacles to
carrying out this action?
- Credibility of COPE U.P.
- Other organizations with the same concern
- Other available services in the campus
• Stimulation
- How will we encourage the people to
participate?
- “May susunod pa ba?”
- “Hahayaan ba nating may sumunod pa?”
• Feedback and Reinforcement
- “Hindi lang tayo basta kaibigan.”
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Mission
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