TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Suicides by drowning in Greece: Findings from a 10-year sample (2006-2015)
JO  - Medico-legal journal, The
A1  - Paraschakis, Antonios
A1  - Michopoulos, Ioannis
A1  - Efstathiou, Vasiliki
A1  - Christodoulou, Christos
A1  - Boyokas, Ilias
A1  - Douzenis, Athanassios
SP  - 45
EP  - 48
VL  - 86
IS  - 1
N2  - We studied a sample of suicide victims from Greece's main port of Piraeus area (population: approx. 700,000 individuals) and investigated all suicides for the 10-year period 2006-2015, collecting data from the victims' forensic records at the Piraeus Department of Forensic Medicine. Sixty-nine (15.9%) out of 435 suicides were due to drowning, 51 (73.9%) males and 18 (26.1%) females. Drowning was the third most common suicide method with most in the sea (92.8%), fewer in wells (7.2%). Median age: males 52.2 years (standard deviation (SD): 20.3, range: 27-89) and females 58.8 years (SD: 15.2, range: 32-84). Psychiatric medications: antidepressants (6 cases, 8.9%), benzodiazepines (6 cases, 8.9%) and antipsychotics (1 case, 1.5%). Other substances: alcohol (14 cases, 20.9%), cocaine (1 case, 1.5%) and opioids (1 case, 1.5%). No seasonal effect was observed for suicides by drowning. Greece, being a country with an embracing coastline, could provide a field of study for suicide by drowning.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0025-8172
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025817217727648
ID  - ref1
ER  -