Citation

Altindag A, Ozkan M, Oto R. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2005; 35(4): 478-482.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Harran University Meducal School, Sanliurfa, Turkey. aaltindag@yaoo.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16184698

Abstract

The southern part of Turkey has comparatively high female suicide rates. We aimed to research social, economic, cultural, and psychiatric reasons of suicides in Batman in a case-controlled psychological autopsy study comparing suicides with matched community controls. The female suicide rate was 9.3 per 100.000 and the female/male ratio was 1.72/21. The suicides most frequently occurred in young females, mean age 20.7. The most frequent method (45%) was hanging. The most frequent stressful life events were health problems and family disruption. High suicide rates among females may be related to negative social status of females living in the region.