Risk factors and reporting status for attempted Suicide: A hospital-based study

Abstract

Context: Suicide is a major public health problem and ranks second among the leading causes of death in both genders in 15-34 years. Suicidal attempts are 20 times higher than the completed suicides. Aims: The aim was to identify background risk factors and precipitating factors for suicide attempts in Pondicherry district and to fi nd out the reporting status of suicide attempts. Settings and Design: Hospital-based descriptive study. Subjects and Methods: 200 subjects who have attempted suicide from JIPMER and Indira Gandhi Government Hospital and Post Graduate Institute Pondicherry were interviewed. Monthly data on attempted suicide were collected from Crime Record Bureau of Pondicherry and Villupuram district and Medical Records Department of these two hospitals was collected. Statistical Analysis Used: SPSS version 16.0 was used. Chi-square test was used to test the signifi cance of the difference between two proportions. Results: Most common precipitating factor found among those who attempted suicide was verbal abuse, most often by parents (31.9%). The most common mode of suicide attempt was consumption of chemical poison in 56% of subjects followed by plant poison 41.5%. The suicide intention was high in 81.5% of subjects. No signifi cant difference in risk factors could be found between subjects from Pondicherry and villupuram district. It was found that there was gross under-reporting of attempted suicides to Crime Records Bureau. Conclusions: Measurement of suicide intention enables us to predict the future suicidal behavior in adults; individuals with a high suicide intent index pose a major public health problem. Hence, there is a need for opportunistic screening of those with suicidal ideations as well as counseling and follow-up of those with suicide attempts to prevent further attempts.

Choice of poisoning agent and self-reported reasons for attempted suicide - A retrospective study

“…13 In contrast to our findings, studies in India by Singh A, Lingeswaran A, and Purushothaman P found more number of females attempting suicide, which could be due to differences in the population sampled. 17,19,20 In accordance with the results of a qualitative study on attempted suicide among young people in India, the majority of our subjects who attempted suicide were unmarried. 21 Low educational attainment, low socioeconomic status, and involvement in the agricultural sector were found to be the vulnerable demographics for heightened suicide risk in our sample.…”

“…17 Furthermore, gender disparities were evident in our study with the majority of those who attempted suicide being males, which is in line with the studies by Benjamin RN et al and Patel NS et al with males comprising a significant majority of suicide attempters 12,18. …”

Socio-demographic profile and mode of attempt of suicide among suicide attempters in Kashmir: a hospital-based study

“…13 Moreover young people who are more impulsive and less experienced with critical life situations often opt to attempt suicide to tide over difficult life situations. 14 Compared to completed suicides, attempted suicides are more common and it seems that the patients who attempt suicides are suffering from various psychiatric disorders. 15 Kashmir is a conflict zone and has been constantly under stress for the past 20 years which has led to rise in mental illnesses in the valley as reported by many studies conducted by various researchers.…”

Trends of risk factors of completed suicide by gender and age

“…Male suicide rate is higher than the rate of female suicide in many countries (Jayasinghe and Foster, 2011;Poorolajal et al, 2015;Purushothaman et al, 2015: WHO, 2014b. In Sri Lanka, the rate of male suicide is *Corresponding author.…”