CHAPTER V

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATION

This chapter presents the summary of findings,

conclusion and recommendation drawn from the Level of

Awareness on the Factors Causing Suicide Incidents in Roxas City

as Evaluated by the Community.

Summary of the Findings

The main purpose of this study was to determine the

level of awareness on the factors causing suicide incidents in

Roxas City as evaluated by the community. Specifically, this

study sought to answer the following questions: 1) What is the

level of awareness on the factors causing suicide incidents in

Roxas city as evaluated by community? And 2) is there

significant difference in the level of awareness on the factors

causing suicide incidents in Roxas city as evaluated by

Community when they are grouped according to their socio-

demographic profile such as sex, age, civil status, educational

attainment and respondent’s category?

The null hypothesis of this study stated that 1) There

is no significant difference in the level of awareness on the

factors causing suicide incidents in Roxas city as evaluated by

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Community when they are grouped according to their socio-

demographic profile such as sex, age, civil status, educational

attainment and respondents category.

This study was conducted in the selected barangays in Roxas

City, namely: Milibili, Jumaguicjic, Lanot, Barangay V, Libas,

Balijuagan, Tanque, and Dayao during the school year 2021-2022.

The data were gathered with the use of survey

questionnaire composing of two parts. The first part gathered

the socio – demographic profile of respondents such as sex, age,

civil status, educational attainment and respondent’s category.

The second part consisted of questions that evaluated the level

of awareness of the factors causing suicide incident in Roxas,

City categorized into psychological, emotional, socio-economic

and physical factors. The research instruments was then

subjected to the content validity testing.

It utilized the descriptive-correlational research

design. The gathered data were analyzed using statistical

tools such as frequency, percentage, mean, t-test and One-

way ANOVA. The alpha level was set at 0.05.

The community were aware on the factors causing suicide

incidents in Roxas City with a grand mean of 3.87. Data

further showed that community members were aware on the

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factors causing suicide incidents specifically the emotional

factors (AM=3.92); psychological factors (AM=3.92); socio-

economic factors (AM=3.94) and physical factors (AM=3.70).

In terms of emotional factors, item statement number 2

“A person who is experiencing severe sadness because of break

up” obtained the highest mean of 3.97; in psychological factor,

statement number 3 “A person who has the history of sexual

abuse or rape” had highest mean of 3.97; in socio-economic

factor, item statement number 3 “A person is experiencing

financial problems” had highest mean of 4.08 and in physical

factors, statement number 1 “A person who has an access of

firearms or other killer weapons” had the highest mean of 3.80.

There was significant difference in the level of

awareness on the factors causing suicide incidents in Roxas

city as evaluated by community when they are grouped according

to sex with a mean difference of 0.383, t - value = 2.00 and

p-value = 0.049; in psychological factors, data revealed a

mean difference of 0.259, t - value = 1.293 and p-value =

0.02; in socio-economic factors, data revealed a mean

difference of 0.452, t - value = 2.322 and p-value = 0.023;

and in physical factors , data revealed a mean difference of

-0.449, t - value = 2.003 and p-value = 0.049; and when

grouped according to age in terms of emotional factors (F =

value = 3.553; p – value = 0.018); psychological factors (F

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= 3.013; p - value = 0.035); socio-economic factors (F =

3.718; p - value = 0.015); and physical factors (F = 1.734;

p - value = 0.016. Since, the computed p – values were

lesser than .05 alpha, the null hypothesis was rejected.

However, there was no significant difference between level

of awareness on the factors causing suicide incidents in Roxas

city as evaluated by community when grouped according to civil

status in terms of emotional factors (F = value = 1.247; p –

value = 0.293); psychological factors (F = 0.813; p - value

= 0.447); socio-economic factors (F = 0.039; p - value =

0.962); and physical factors (F = 2.367; p - value = 0.101;

when grouped according to educational attainment in terms of

emotional factors (F = value = 0.697; p – value = 0.501);

psychological factors (F = 0.270; p - value = 0.764); socio-

economic factors (F = 0.031; p - value = 0.969); and

physical factors (F = 0.648; p - value = 0.526 and when

grouped according to respondents category in terms of

emotional factor, data revealed a mean difference of -0.176,

t - value = -0.752 and p-value = 0.455; in psychological

factors, data revealed a mean difference of 0.029, t - value

= 0.120 and p-value = 0.905; in socio-economic factors, data

revealed a mean difference of 0.164, t - value = 0.685 and

p-value = 0.495; and in physical factors , data revealed a

mean difference of 0.296, t - value = 1.083 and p-value =

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0.282; Since the computed p – values were greater than 0.05

alpha, the null hypothesis stating that there was no

significant difference in the level of awareness of

community when grouped according to civil status,

educational attainment and respondents category was

accepted.

Conclusions

The Community of Roxas City were aware on the factors

causing suicide incidents in Roxas City such as emotional

factors, psychological factors, socio-economic factors and

physical factors. These four factors are caused a person to

commit suicide based on their knowledge.

There was significant differences in the level of

awareness on the factors causing suicide incidents in Roxas

City as evaluated by community when grouped according to sex and

age. There was no significant difference when the

respondents were grouped according to civil status,

educational attainment and respondent’s category.

Recommendations

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 Based on the aforementioned findings and conclusions,

the following recommendations were presented:

Barangay officials. They may attend program or seminar

about suicide incidents and make some programs and

activities with community-based policies to reduce excessive

alcohol use, social-emotional learning programs, parenting

skill and family relationship programs, safe reporting and

messaging about suicide, treatment for people at risk of

suicide and treatment to prevent re-attempts.

Local Government. The Government may formulate specific

projects, activities and programs designed to develop

capacity of school authorities, community and household

members for early detection of suicidal behavior,

prevention of suicide risk factors and provide proper

support and response to displaying suicidal behavior. The

DOH may establish a 24/7 hotline to provide assistance to

affected people and the existing suicide prevention

hotline. DOH may be strengthened to ensure that the suicide

intervention, prevention and responses were appropriate for

the affected person. The Congress may allocate adequate

funding for the implementation of the suicide program and

activities.

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 Community. The community may be encouraged support and

cooperate with the government for a more effective and

responsible implementation of various suicide prevention

programs. They may also need to build a positive and

harmonious relationship to the government in order to be

maintain peace in order to the community.

Future Researchers. Similar studies may be conducted

considering other variables related to the study. The ideas

presented may be used as reference data in conducting new

research or in testing the validity of other related

findings. This study may also serve as the cross-reference

that may give them the background to their research and may

introduce their own study covering other variables.

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