Citation

Licanin I, Music E, Laslo E, Berg-Kelly K, Masic I, Redzic A, Vejzagic A, Krosnjar S. Med. Arh. 2003; 57(4): 237-240.

Affiliation

Psychiatric Clinic of Clinical Centre, University of Sarajevo.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Drustva Ljekara Bosne I Hercegovine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14528719

Abstract

The enquiry of suicide is of particular importance. According to WHO statistics suicide in people aged from 15 to 24 years has shown the greatest increase of relative mortality. In the group of suicidal adolescents, depression, behavioural disorders, abuse of different substances and personality deviations are frequent factors in presence. The aim of our investigation was to determine the correlation between psychoactive substance abuse and the occurrence of suicidal thoughts in adolescents. The specific "Q 2000" test was used to question 600 adolescents, from Tuzla and Sarajevo Cantons, with the same gender and age distribution and rural-urban ambient. The more prevailing suicidal idea occurrence was observed in cannabis abusers (50.0%) and alcohol abusers (36.6%) in comparison to non-abusers regardless gender and/or living ambient (settlement types) (19.5% and 17.6% per each, x2 = 17.184 p = 0.00001). The augmentation in number of suicidal ideas was not observed in tobacco smokers.

Language: en