Citation

Naik RK, Chaudhari VA, Bharadwaj B, Shaha KK, Badhe B. J. Ind. Acad. Forensic Med. 2016; 38(3): 360-363.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.5958/0974-0848.2016.00090.7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Hospital suicides create a unique challenge for the administrators, doctors, caregivers, nurses, and other patients in the ward. Risk factors associated with suicide attempt during hospital stay are: feminine gender, borderline personality disorder, earlier psychiatric hospitalizations, shorter duration of the disorder, and earlier age of onset. In India, there is a culture difference among different people and it shows wide variation in the suicide rates. The literature on suicides who are suffering from cancer in a hospital setting is limited. We discuss an inpatient suicidal hanging who had metastatic adenocarcinoma of a liver along with inpatient suicide and its psychological aspects.

Language: en

Keywords

Risk factors; Hospital suicides; Nursing care Precautions; Postmortem study