Demographic Features of Suicide Attempt Cases Applied To Umraniye Education and Research Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department Between 2010 and 2012

Toklucu, Mustafa Özgür; Akova, Sevgi; Aydoğdu, Selime; Yazar, Ahmet Sami; Kul, Müslüm

doi:10.5222/jopp.2012.119

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“…In the study conducted by Toklucu et al, NSAIDs and psychotropic drugs took the first place. Data compatible with the literature were obtained in terms of drug classes taken during self-poisoning [14].…”

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Characteristics of Patients who Visited the Emergency Department due to self-poisoning Suicide Attempt: A Retrospective Study.

Çelik

Seyhan

Korkut

et al. 2022

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Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the sociodemographic characteristics, clinical conditions, and results of patients who were admitted to the emergency department (ED) due to suicide attempts by self-poisoning intentionally. Methods: This retrospective study was conducted between January 1 and December 31, 2017, in the ED of Istanbul Lutfi Kırdar City Hospital, University of Health Sciences. Patients of only attempted suicide through taking overdose drugs with the intent of self-poisoning and over 12 ages were included in the study, which included 391 cases. Patients who attempted suicide in any different ways than self-poisoning were excluded. Results: Our study is consisted 69.8% (n=273) of female and 30.2% (n=18) of male patients. The mean age of the total cases was 31.01±12.064, which the youngest case being 14 years old and the oldest being 73 years old. The marital status of the cases is as follows: 140 (35.8%) married, 205 (52.4%) unmarried, 42 (10.7%) divorced, and 4 (1%) widow/widower. Istanbul is covering a major population of patients (93.1%) as a living place. The study has resulted in 58.3% ED discharge, 27.1% hospital leaving, and 10.5% Psychiatry unit admission. It can be stated that elderly people aim for death more than young people via their suicide attempts. The reasons for the suicide of the patients included in the study were grouped as a secondary gain, anger, and death. We found that secondary gain was the reason for teens mostly. We divided into categories clinical results as ED discharge, psychiatrist hospitalization, Intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and discharge against medical advice (DAMA). The patients who attempted suicide with the aim of death were hospitalized in the psychiatry unit, and the attempts caused by secondary gain were discharged from the ED. Patients who had taken paracetamol for suicide, which is contain 70.10% of the total cases, were discharged from the ED, after the examination. It was detected that 39.29% of the cases who had Suicidal ideations again, had a psychiatric disease in their medical history. Conclusions: Suicidal behavior is a very comprehensive topic when considering its etiology and risk factors, there are many variables as well. Since it is one of the serious public health issues and causes of death, the risk factors must be identified and preventions to be taken should be determined. In addition, when elderly people attempt suicide, more medical care should be taken during ED, since they are more focused to die and fall into the category of severe cases.

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Characteristics of Patients who Visited the Emergency Department due to self-poisoning Suicide Attempt: A Retrospective Study.

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Seyhan

Korkut

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“…In Turkey, they generally focused on suicide (16,17). There is little in the scientific literature describing the characteristics of children and adolescents who present to EDs of mental health hospitals with mental health concerns.…”

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Characteristics of Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Population in a Mental Health Hospital

Mutlu¹,

Kılıçoğlu²,

Güneş³

et al. 2015

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Aim: We aimed to investigate the characteristics of children and adolescents presented to the psychiatric emergency service (PES) of a mental health hospital. Materials and Methods:Medical records of patients under 18 years of age were reviewed for the first psychiatric emergency visit during a 1-year period. Results:The mean age was 15.82 years and 65.8% (n=711) were female. The most presenting symptoms were suicidal ideation (21.0%; most for girls) and homicide/violence toward others (20.7%; most for boys). The mean duration of symptoms was 265.36 days. The most common diagnoses were conduct disorder (16.7%; most for boys) and conversion disorder (15.5%; most for girls). Of the patients, 51.7% never used any mental health services before. The rate of prior use of mental health service was significantly higher in patients presenting with homicide/violence toward others and self-harm and lower in patients presenting with anxiety and somatic symptoms (p<0.05). Of the patients, 292 (27.0%) took no treatment and 271 (25.1%) were admitted to the psychiatric inpatient unit.Conclusion: PES can be used by half of the families as a first-line therapy unit. PES seems to serve an important role in the continuum of pediatric mental health care, particularly for youths with homicide/violence toward others, and to be a point of access to mental healthcare, particularly for youths with anxiety and somatic symptoms. (Eurasian J Emerg Med 2015; 14: 123-30)

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“…In terms of sex, many studies have shown that those forensic cases were more common in boys than in girls (1,4-6,10). However, it has been reported that the rates of suicide attempts increase during adolescence, and most of these cases are drug-induced poisoning cases (12,14,15); therefore, forensic events are more common in female cases (16,17). We showed that female patients were more frequently admitted than male patients among the forensic pediatric cases.…”

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Evaluation of forensic cases admitted to the pediatric emergency department

Bolat¹

2023

Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine

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Introduction: Pediatric forensic cases have an important share in pediatric emergency service admissions. These require immediate treatment as they can lead to pediatric morbidity and mortality. In this study, a retrospective analysis of pediatric patients admitted to the emergency department due to acute forensic events was performed, and it was aimed to contribute to the data collected in Turkey by evaluating the results along with the results of other studies. Material and Method: All pediatric forensic cases admitted to the Pediatric Emergency Service of the ……..Research and Training Hospital between November 2016 and January 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. The demographic characteristics, forensic events, intoxication agents, hospitalization statuses and clinical follow-ups of the cases were recorded. Results: Among the 819 pediatric forensic cases admitted to the Pediatric Emergency Service, 393 (48%) were male, and 426 (52%) were female. The cases were aged between 0 and 18, with a mean age of 7.75±6.87 years. The majority of the patients were in the 0-2 age group (n=349, 42.6%). Case admissions were more frequent in winter months (n= 240; 29.3%), and most admissions were made in December (n=92; 11.2%). The days of the week with the highest frequencies of admissions were Wednesday (n=138, 16.8%) and Monday (n=134, 16.3%). The hours of the day with the highest frequencies of admissions were between 18:00 and 24:00 (n=309; 37.72%). Drug intoxication (47.13%) was found to be the most frequently encountered reason for the admission of the cases. While 69.47% (n=569) of the cases were treated as outpatients, 29.42% (n=241) were treated as inpatients, and the mortality rate in the sample was 0.6%. Conclusion: Most causes of pediatric forensic events are preventable. Therefore, a safe environment should be provided by taking effective protective measures, and strategies that include education in which families and children will actively participate should be developed.

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Demographic Features of Suicide Attempt Cases Applied To Umraniye Education and Research Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department Between 2010 and 2012

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Characteristics of Patients who Visited the Emergency Department due to self-poisoning Suicide Attempt: A Retrospective Study.

Characteristics of Patients who Visited the Emergency Department due to self-poisoning Suicide Attempt: A Retrospective Study.

Characteristics of Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Population in a Mental Health Hospital

Evaluation of forensic cases admitted to the pediatric emergency department

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