Citation

Arafat SMY, Mali B, Akter H. Neurol. Psychiatry Brain Res. 2020; 36: 83-85.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Springer International)

DOI

10.1016/j.npbr.2020.03.004

PMID

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Epidemiology of suicide has been found as an under-attended research focus in Bangladesh.

OBJECTIVES: It was aimed to see demography, methods and precipitating events of suicidal attempts that were published in Bangla online news portals.

METHODS: We searched and scrutinized published news contents of four Bangla online news portals reporting the suicidal news between 01 November 2018 and 31 October 2019. A total of 199 articles were collected and subsequently analyzed.

RESULTS: The mean age of suicide attempters reported in the news portals was 26.86 (±13.60) years, ranging from 9 to 75 years. More than 60 % of the reported cases were less than 30 years of age, 53 % were female, 32.16 % were students, and 52.3 % were unmarried. Hanging was found as the commonest method (60 %) and affair related issues (17.59 %), marital discords (13.57 %), familial discords (10.55 %), were found as the mentionable precipitating events. About 83 % of the suicides happened at the home of the person, multiple persons were involved in the suicidal acts in about 8% of the respondents, 91 % were completed suicides, and 4% suicide reports were associated with homicides.

CONCLUSION: The study showed adults less than thirty years, females, and students are exhibiting more suicidal behaviors. Hanging was the most commonly used method and the majority of the precipitating events were within the family. © 2020 Elsevier GmbH

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; Risk factors; adult; human; student; homicide; suicide; burn; Hanging; child; female; male; aged; Bangladesh; Suicidal behavior; suicide attempt; suicidal behavior; hanging; Demography; intoxication; unemployment; sexual harassment; major clinical study; automutilation; priority journal; physical disease; mass medium; demography; Article; family conflict; physical violence; extramarital sex; Precipitating events; Suicide in Bangladesh