Authors
- Adeleh Hashemi fard
- Seyed Ehsan Saffari
- Akram Ghasemi Hosseinabadi
- Hamidreza Hashemifard
- Majid Hashemifard
Abstract
Background: Suicide is a huge problem in today's society. Due to the prevalence of this phenomenon especially amongyouth, this study was aimed atinvestigatingthe possible factors affecting on suicide attempts in patients of health centers of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences.
Material and Methods: The present study was a descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study. All patients who have madesuicide attemptsand referred to Vasei Hospital of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 2013 were subjected as study population, and finally 242 cases among all registered cases in the Medical Records Unit of the hospital were entered to this study using the simple random sampling. SPSS 16 was used as well as the descriptive statistics and Chi-square test to analyze the data with %5 significance level.
Results: The suicide attempt cases in this study have the mean age of 25.77±9, with %45.6 of singles and %86.78 of urban. The most prevalent method in suicide attemptswas found to betheuse ofmedicine (%56.68) and the most important reason leading tosuicide attemptswas found to be the family problems (%38.02). Furthermore, the relationship between result, method, reason and the number of suicide attempts,varieswith demographic variables,obtained about%5 of significance level.
Conclusions: The results showed that lots of factors such as gender, age, marriage status, history of Psychosis, history of physical illness and history of suicide attemptsplay important roles in suicide attempt as a leading cuase of dead.
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