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Citation
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Hossein SS, Mohammad HKS, Hamed BG, Nader T, Mohammadreza Y, Gholamreza M, Mojtaba C, Hassan A. Iran. J. Forensic Med. 2017; 23(1): 7-15. |
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Abstract
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Background and Aims: Suicide is one of the major problems in the modern world that calls for investigation in different periods. This study was an epidemiological survey of the patients who had attempt suicide admitted to Hazrat Rasoul Hospital in a five-year period in Tehran.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the data on the 483 attempted suicide cases from 2007 to 2011 were collected from Hazrat Rasoul Hospital Patients' records. The data were gathered with a structured checklist and analyzed with SPSS 16.
Results: The results showed that among attempted suicide cases 78.3% were those who had no academic education, 72% were below the age of 30 years, 64.8% were unmarried, 51.3% were men and 32.9% were housewives. Moreover, 40.7% of the cases reported the history of mental illnesses with depression and schizophrenia at the highest rate of occurrence. Thirty-three percent of the suicides were attempted at nighttime, 69% on early weekdays, and 33.4% in winter. Family struggles with the rate of 48.9% and psychological disorders with the rate of 24.8% were the main causes of suicide attempt, respectively. Fifty-seven percent of the cases abused tablets and 29.4% cut their hand veins as the most common methods of suicide. Only 3% of the cases had led to death.
Conclusion: Young, unmarried people, those with a history of psychological disorders and unsuccessful suicide attempts are at the higher risk of attempting suicide and should be more closely observed in preventive programs.
Keyword(s): ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, HAZRAT RASOUL HOSPITAL, MENTAL DISORDERS, UNSUCCESSFUL SUICIDE
Language: en |