@article{ref1,
title="The Pattern of Suicide in the Western Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Retrospective Study From 2008 to 2012",
journal="American journal of forensic medicine and pathology",
year="2014",
author="Helaly, Ahmed Mohamed Nabil and Ali, Emad Fekry and Zidan, Essam Mohamed",
volume="36",
number="1",
pages="27-30",
abstract="Suicide represents the dramatic end of human life mostly in young age. In a 5-year retrospective study in Jeddah in the western Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 200 successful suicidal attempts demonstrated that hanging was the most common method of suicide with 72% of the cases, and males represented 77% of the total loses. Most fatalities were of the age range from 20s to 40s. Saudi cases constituted 18.5% of the death cases representing the second most common nationality of successful suicidal attempt in Jeddah after Indians who represented 23% of the entire study. Saudi fatalities were induced by hanging in 56% of the all Saudi deaths in contrast to about 83% in the Indian fatalities.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0195-7910",
doi="10.1097/PAF.0000000000000132",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000132"
}