@article{ref1,
title="Descriptive characteristics of callers to an emotional support and suicide prevention helpline in Bangladesh (first five years)",
journal="Asian journal of psychiatry",
year="2019",
author="Iqbal, Yeshim and Jahan, Rubina and Matin, Muhtasabbib Rumman",
volume="45",
number="",
pages="63-65",
abstract="Although crisis helplines are an established method of suicide prevention, there is little research on their operation in developing countries. This paper reviews calls (N = 14,344) to the only suicide prevention hotline in Bangladesh during the first five years of the helpline's operation. Call characteristics were recorded on checklists, compiled, and analyzed. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that callers are about half male, mostly between the ages of twenty and thirty-nine, and mostly not suicidal. Callers display a wide range of reasons for calling, with relationship issues, mental illness/substance abuse, and emotions constituting the majority of calls.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1876-2018",
doi="10.1016/j.ajp.2019.09.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2019.09.005"
}