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Suicides among Children in Wellawaya and Thanamalwila Divisional Secretariat Divisions in Monaragala District in Sri Lanka

Author : Rupasinghe, Jagath and Wijekoon Banda, T.M. et al.

Publisher: Save the Children

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Year: 2006

Page Numbers: 46

Acc. No: 3099

Class No: 305.23 RUP-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Children

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

Children are the future of any nation and therefore protection of them and make them healthy is a vital responsibility of any nation. Therefore, this study is planned to investigate the suicide behavior among children in two divisional secretariat areas that media reports claimed as the areas with the highest suicide incidents. The objectives of the study are to identify the long-standing and immediate reasons for the committed suicide, to investigate the features of social and natural environment, which help or encourage children to commit suicide in the face of personal crisis and to identify the attitudes and perspectives of the community.