Suicide Attempts among Turkish Psychiatric Patients

Çoşar, Behçet; N, Koçal; Arikan, Zehra; Işık, Erdal

doi:10.1177/070674379704201009

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“…Ninety-seven percent of the participants reported a distressing event preceding suicide attempts, and 25% of the cases attempted suicide previously. The previous sucide attempt rate was 43% in psychiatric patients inTurkey (Cosar, Kocal, Arikan, & Isik, 1997). In our study, females displayed significantly greater suicidal ideation than males.…”

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Predictors of Suicidal Behavior in a Sample of Turkish Suicide Attempters

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In a Turkish sample, 100 suicide attempters, were compared with 60 healthy controls on measures of hopelessness, depression, and suicidal ideation. Suicide attempters were more depressive, more hopeless, and displayed greater suicidal ideation than healthy controls. Depression severity rather than hopelessness correlated with suicidal intent. Suicide lethality was independent of depression severity, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation and intent, suggesting that lethality is likely due to chance.

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Predictors of Suicidal Behavior in a Sample of Turkish Suicide Attempters

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“…Turkey, an Islamic country, reviewed the medical records of 185 cases of suicide attempts referred to a psychiatric department [4]. There was a predominance of single females (students, housewives, and employees) with drug overdose as the most common method of suicide attempt and depression as the most common diagnosis.…”

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A review of Suicide Behavior Among Arab Adolescents

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Merrick²,

Schwarz³

et al. 2005

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Islam prohibits the taking of one's life, because this way you will interfere with the work of G-d (Allah), which is clear from several places in the Quran. Concerning individual suicide or suicide attempts in various Arab countries the literature is sparse and the incidence low. In this paper we present a review of research from Israel showing that suicide epidemiology among the Arab population of children and adolescents display a low incidence, but an increase has been observed over the past decade, but still much lower than the Jewish population. We believe that there is a need for the development of prevention and intervention strategies in order to keep this incidence low.

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“…12 Iran (population 60 million) has a range of psychiatric services and a dozen universities graduate 50 psychiatrists each year. Nevertheless, it remains a major problem for Turkey, 21 Uzbekistan 22 and other central Asian countries. 13 A World Health Organization (WHO) study of depression in different cultures around the world showed the clinical features of patients in Tehran to be similar to those elsewhere.…”

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