Citation

Tanvir Chowdhury T, Nahid R, Essam M. A, Nahid S. Suez Canal Univ. Med. J. 2007; 10(1): 11-22.

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(Copyright © 2007)

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Abstract

Adolescent violence in context of self inflicted injuries, particularly suicide death, is a matter of public concern. The main purpose of this study was to investigate trend and pattern epidemiology of the suicide deaths among adolescent youth in a community based population. We studied self inflicted injury deaths among the adolescents belonging to the age range from 10-19 years of the state of Wisconsin for the duration of 1999-2002. Data information was gathered from the population based public data source; Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health. The total injury mortality for the study population was 54.90 per 100,000 person-year [95%CI:53.91-55.88]. Male had higher injury mortality compared to female in all injury sub groups. During the 1999 to 2002 suicidal injuries was among the 3rd, 5th and 7th leading cause for injury related deaths. For the age group of 10-14 the self inflicted injury death rate was 2.3 [95%CI:1.27-3.33] and 1.66 [95%CI:0.76-2.56] for male and female early adolescents respectively. In the age group of 15-17 death rate increased to 13 [95%CI:8.84-16.l6] and 3.66 [95%CI:1.71-5.00] for male and female respectively. In the age group of 18-19 death rate further increased to 24.67 [95%CI:19.40-29.95] in male but decreased to 2.47 [95%CI:0.76-4.17] in female. Among the suicidal injury death of the adolescents the highest was caused by firearms [53.7%] followed by suffocation [33.7%]. But after considering the only female group, the suffocation was highest [43.2%] followed by fire arm [37.8%]. Among the age group of 10-19, self inflicted injury was among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity during the period of 1999-2002 in Wisconsin. Prevention programme addressing this very problem should be accentuated

Language: en