Citation

Satar K, Koroush S, Khairollah A. Research Journal of Medical Sciences 2010; 4(3): 217-221.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010)

DOI

10.3923/rjmsci.2010.217.221

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Causes related to suicide are affected by quick variations in the social, cultural and economical status of societies. Ham province had a quick development during 2 recent decades and this phenomenon has changed the attitude of people living in this part of the country. This study aims to evaluate some variables related to suicide and compare these variables between successful and unsuccessful suicide during 1992-2005 in Ham province. By a retrospective study, all data related to 2854 people who committed suicide during 1992-2005 was investigated in details. Definitions and their related codes for some variables in different years were justified and using ANOVA, Chi squared and logistic regression all data were analysed. Among 2845 suicide records 61/6% were female and mean age of patients was 24.8 years (±11.2). About 24.5% of all records had successful suicide and there was a significant relationship between the percentage of successful suicide and years of suicide commitment (p<0.001). Also there was a significant relationship between method of suicide and years of suicide commitment (p<0.001). The main causes related to suicide were family conflict (42.1%), psychological problems (29.7%) and physical problems (8.8%), respectively. There was a significant relationship between causes of successful suicide and years of suicide commitment (p<0.001).The most frequent method of suicide was using tablets (44.7%), burning by petroleum (25.2%) and toxin (21.5%), respectively. Logistic regression revealed that successful suicide was considerably affected by tools of suicide, town of living, age, cause of suicide and racial status (p<0.001). Causes and tools of suicide as well as place of living, educational levels and racial status of patients who committed suicide have been changed during 1992-2005 and therefore time could be considered as an important factor which should be evaluated in suicide analysis. © Medwell Journals, 2010.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; adult; human; suicide; female; male; Iran; suicidal ideation; cause of death; race; article; major clinical study; mental disease; retrospective study; family violence; social problem; physical disease; demography; Successful suicide; educational status; Method of suicide; Causes of suicide; Ham province; Tahran; Tools of suicide