Objectives:
The current work was led to screen the suicidal risk among schooled adolescents and to identify suicidal risk associated factors.

Background:
Suicide represent a worldwide health priority. In Tunisia, there is a growing increase of this phenomenon among adolescents, yet it remains under-studied.

Materials and Methods:
We led a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study, during the two last weeks of December 2016. It included a stratified random sample of 224 schooled adolescents, aged 15 to 21 years, from three state secondary schools in the governorate of Tunis-Tunisia. To assess the suicidal risk among those adolescents, we used the Suicide Probability Scale(SRS) translated and validated into French.

Results and Conclusions:
Our study showed that, according to the SPS, 16 adolescents (7.14% of cases) had suicidal risk. In fact, 15 adolescents had a low suicidal risk and only one adolescent had a high suicidal risk.It also revealed that suicidal risk among those adolescents was strongly correlated with female sex (p=0.03), and with alcohol and drugs consumption (p=0.003). Furthermore, our study identified a correlation between suicidal risk and family history of suicide (p=0.004), the lack of family support (p=0.02) and lone-parent families (p=0.000). Moreover, adolescents’ inclination to be alone has been proven to be highly linked to suicidal risk (p=0.002).
These findings imply that suicide risk depends on accumulative exposure to a series of social, family and personality factors. Hence, suicide prevention programs for youth who fit these risk profiles should be given high priority.

SUICIDAL RISK AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG SCHOOLED ADOLESCENTS: A CROSS SECTIONAL TUNISIAN STUDY