Citation

Bhagavath P, Monteiro FNP, Gnanadev NC. Med. Legal Update 2012; 12(1): 52-54.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, R.K. Sharma and Institute of Medico-Legal Publications)

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Abstract

Intentional self-poisoning is one of the most common methods of suicide worldwide. A three year retrospective hospital record-based research conducted in a tertiary care hospital attached to a medical institution in Karnataka to record the incidence, age, gender, religion, type of poisoning, outcome and circumstance of poisoning. Of the total 1, 49, 454 patients admitted in the hospital for treatment during this three year research period, 592 patients were for to acute poisoning, among which 377 are of intentional self poisoning. Of these 57.5% were males and 42.5% females. The majority (36.6%) cases were from age group of 21-30 years. Majority (96.8%) of the intentional self poisoning victims were Hindus. The commonest poisons ingested were Oragnophosphorous insecticides. The mortality outcome was 60 out of 377 cases. Psychiatric illness was seen in 182 (48.3%) intentional self poisoning victims.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; adult; human; age; Mortality; child; female; male; Poisoning; India; incidence; sex difference; mortality; article; major clinical study; mental disease; retrospective study; school child; self poisoning; religion; organophosphate insecticide; rodenticide; plant toxin; outcome assessment; medical record review; carbamate pesticide; chlorinated hydrocarbon; intentional self poisoning; Intentional self poisoning; irritant agent; Organophosphorous poison