Citation

Ponnudurai R, Jeyakar J, Saraswathy M. Indian J. Psychiatry 1986; 28(1): 59-62.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Medknow Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21927143

PMCID

PMC3172501

Abstract

This study pertains to eighty six suicide attempters. The findings indicated that in both sexes the peak age group was 15 - 20 years, followed by 21 - 25 years. Organophosphorous compounds were found to have been used by a large number of attempters. 23.25% of our sample had contemplated on this act even prior to this episode. Alcohol was found to be an important factor behind 10.46% of cases. The scores on Eysenck Personality Questionnaire indicated that extraversion was predominantly found in our cases of attempted suicides whereas most of them scored very low on P scale.

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