An empirical analysis of suicidal death trends in India: A 5 year retrospective study

Trends and determinants of suicide in Warangal District Telangana, India: six years retrospective study based on secondary data

“…Another possible reason for higher suicide cases in rural region could be to the dearth of immediate medical interventions or specialized medical staff required to deal with self harm or suicide attempt case (Patel et al, 2012). The present study observation of higher suicide rate among male than compared female is in agreement with other epidemiological studies (Badiye et al, 2014;Chettri et al, 2016;Dervic et al, 2012) reporting 2-3 times higher suicide deaths among males than compared to female counterpart. The gender difference in suicide mortality could be attributed to the difference in preference of more lethal and violent suicide method (Mergl et al, 2015), alcohol abuse and its intoxication at the time of suicide attempt (Menon et al, 2015).…”

“…Suicide rate diverge for countries due to the difference in the social and cultural background, availability of mental health services, classification of death and accurate registration of suicidal deaths (Hawton & Heeringen, 2009). Globally suicide rate varies from 1.66 per100,000 population to 36.2 per100,000 population (ElHak et al, 2009;Naidoo & Schlebusch, 2014;Sun et al, 2013) and for Indian states it varies from 11.8 per100,000 population to 82.2 per100,000 population (Mohanty et al, 2007;Kumar et al, 2013;Badiye et al, 2014). Suicide rate 8.4 per100,000 population of Warangal district, Telangana observed in the present study seems to be much below suicide rate reported by other Indian studies.This could be due to difference in the source, suicide data was collected from only one tertiary care from Warangal district and hence undermines the true picture of the entire Warangal district.…”

The association between exposure to interpersonal violence and suicide among women: a systematic review

“…[49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63] Psychological or emotional abuse was the next most studied modality, with seven studies reporting on this type of violence. Among the studies that defined the modalities examined, physical abuse was the most commonly studied (n=15).…”

“…[49][50][51][52][53]57,63 Sexual abuse was studied in six of the identified articles, 50,53,59,62,64,65 neglect in three 50,63,66 and verbal abuse in two. Seven studies focused solely on physical violence, [54][55][56][57][58]60,61 while an additional two exclusively examined sexual abuse. 50 More studies examined a single mode of violence (n=9) than incorporated multiple modalities (n=8).…”

Variation in the Incidence of Self-Immolation According To Culture and Income Level: A Literature Review

“…It is far less common in the Western world, where estimates place this method at 0.06% to 1.5% of all suicides and suicide attempts [8,9]. By contrast, estimates place the rate at as high as 40% in certain developing countries [5,7,[10][11][12]. Despite the low overall rate in the Western world, self-immolation may represent 1 to 10% of the cases in Burn Units [9,13].…”