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The word “suicide” has its origin in Latin; sui’, of one self and “caedere”, to kill: the act of internationally destroying Once life. The phenomenon of suicide has at all times attracted the attention of moralists, social investigation, philosophers and scientists. The world wide , suicide is among the top five cause of the mortality in the 10 to 29 year age group1. In many countries it ranks first to second as a cause of death among children and adolescents is therefore a high priority. Given the fact that in many countries and regions most people in this age group attend school, this appears to be an excellent place to develop appropriate preventive action. So the present study is done to assess the factors influencing suicidal behavior among school students, residing at Ramanathapuram.100 students involved in our study. In the present study the purposive sampling technique was adopted to selected respondents. The sample of the study will be 8thstd -12thstd students at selected school. Tool consists of two parts demographic variable and self-administration questionnaires. Percentage of factors influencing suicidal behavior socio economic factors 42.1%, psychological factors37.8%, family factors 48.3%, physical factors 26.7%, academic factors 47.5%, major life events 30.3%.In the conclusion overall study finding showed that 56% of the sample had inadequate factors influencing suicidal behavior among school students at selected school.

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Factors influencing Suicidal behavior School students

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R.Thephilah Cathrine, & J.Jansi Rani. (2021). Assess the factors influencing suicidal behavior among school students. International Journal of Research in Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics, 8(3), 390-395. https://doi.org/10.61096/ijrpp.v8.iss3.2019.390-395

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