Deliberate self‐poisoning in Oman

Zaidan, Ziad A. J.; Burke, David T.; Dorvlo, Atsu S.S.; Al-Naamani, Aziz; Al-Suleimani, Abdullah; Al-Hussaini, Ala’Adin; Al-Sharbati, Marwan M.; Al-Adawi, Samir

doi:10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00887.x

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“…In developed countries, high rates have been reported in France with 462 cases per 100,000 population and Finland with 314 cases per 100,000 population; while lower rates were reported in Spain, with 45 cases per 100,000 population (15,16) . Our results are higher than those obtained from some Arab countries, like the UAE or Oman (17,18) .…”

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Deliberate self-poisoning: a study from Nablus

Sawalha

2012

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

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“…23 years) is consistent with that reported among young people in Arab countries (18) . In our study, the rates of selfpoisoning were higher in females than males.…”

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Deliberate self-poisoning: a study from Nablus

Sawalha

2012

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

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“…Studies from both developed and developing countries demonstrate that young people, particularly women, below 30 years are over represented in self harm [18-23]. This trend is very evident in our study; teenage girls (12–19) accounted for 21% of all poisonings.…”

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Changing epidemiologic patterns of deliberate self poisoning in a rural district of Sri Lanka

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BackgroundAcute poisoning is a major public health issue in many parts of the world. The epidemiology and the mortality rate is higher in low and middle income countries, including Sri Lanka. The aim of this study was to provide details about the epidemiology of acute poisoning in a rural Sri Lankan district and to identify the changing patterns and epidemiology of poisoning.MethodsA prospective study was conducted from September 2008 to January 2010 in all hospitals with inpatient facilities in Anuradhapura district of North Central Province of Sri Lanka. Acute poisoning data was extracted from patient charts. Selected data were compared to the data collected from a 2005 study in 28 hospitals.ResultsThere were 3813 poisoned patients admitted to the hospitals in the Anuradhapura district over 17 months. The annual population incidence was 447 poisoning cases per 100,000 population. The total number of male and female patients was approximately similar, but the age distribution differed by gender. There was a very high incidence of poisoning in females aged 15–19, with an estimated cumulative incidence of 6% over these five years. Although, pesticides are still the most common type of poison, medicinal drug poisonings are now 21% of the total and have increased 1.6 fold since 2005.ConclusionsAcute poisoning remains a major public health problem in rural Sri Lanka and pesticide poisoning remains the most important poison. However, cases of medicinal drug poisoning have recently dramatically increased. Youth in these rural communities remain very vulnerable to acute poisoning and the problem is so common that school-based primary prevention programs may be worthwhile.Lalith Senarathna, Shaluka F Jayamanna, Patrick J Kelly, Nick A Buckley,michael J Dibley, Andrew H Dawson. These authors contributed equally to this work.

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“…Zaidan, Burke, Dorvio et al (2002) examined people coming to urban hospitals in Oman with deliberate self-poisoning. The modal patient was Omani, female, single, aged 20 to 30 years, using non-steroid analgesics (especially Paracetamol), responding to family conflict and, for the Omanis, a student.…”

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Suicide and Islam

Lester

2006

Archives of Suicide Research

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Much of the research on suicidal behavior in Muslim countries has been simple descriptive studies of samples of completed and attempted suicides. Despite this, and despite the possible under-reporting of suicidal behavior in countries where such behavior is illegal, suicide rates do appear to be lower in Muslims than in those of other religions, even in countries which have populations belonging to several religious groups. Rates of attempted suicide, on the other hand, do not appear to be lower in Muslims as compared to non-Muslims. Research into this topic has been quite poor, failing to take into account the ethnic background and the Islamic sect to which the suicidal subjects belonged. Reasons for the low rate of completed suicide in Muslims are reviewed, including differences in values and socio-economic status.

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Deliberate self‐poisoning in Oman

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Deliberate self-poisoning: a study from Nablus

Deliberate self-poisoning: a study from Nablus

Changing epidemiologic patterns of deliberate self poisoning in a rural district of Sri Lanka

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