Citation

Malakouti SK, Davoudi F, Khalid S, Ahmadzad Asl M, Moosa Khan M, Alirezaei N, Mirabzadeh A, DeLeo D. Acta Med. Iran 2015; 53(5): 257-265.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Australian institute for Suicide Research and Prevention,National Centre of Excellence in Suicide prevention, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. kmalakouti@hnkh.ac.ir.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Tehran University of Medical Sciences)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

26024698

Abstract

This systematic review aimed to help better to understand the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors among Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries. The PubMed, EMR medex, Scopus, PsychInfo, ISI, and IMEMR were searched with no language limitation for papers on the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors in the general population, published up to August 2013. A total of 13 articles were reviewed. The incidence (per 100.000) of committed suicide ranged from 0.55 to 5.4. The lifelong prevalence of attempted suicide, suicidal plan and thoughts were 0.72-4.2%, 6.2-6.7%, and 2.9-14.1%, respectively. The figures for suicide are higher than those officially reported. Suicide behaviors' statistics is susceptible to underestimation presumably due to the socio-cultural, religious and legal barriers, not to mention the lack of well-organized registries and methodologically sound community-based surveys.

Language: en