Evaluation of Cases with Attempted Suicide Admitted to a Training Hospital

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Objective: Nowadays it can be accepted that suicide attempt have become a public problem. In this assignment, it is aimed that the demographic qualities of the cases that apply for the reason of suicide attempt, the kinds and main reasons of it should be matched with the present literature knowledge. Material and Methods: This has put into action with the recycled evaluations of the consultation forms and databases belonging to the psychiatry consultations that were done between the dates of July 2009 and July 2010 in Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize Training and Research Hospital. Sociodemographic data form including credentials, educational and occupational status, and previous psychiatric disorders were applied to all participants. Results: It is seemed that the cases applying for suicide attempts are just 0.13% of all the patients who are in the hospital in the same term. Also, when the general hospital records in the same term are analyzed, it is argued that totally 86 cases have applied for suicide attempts and for 46.5% (40 cases) of those cases psychiatric consultations are not requested. A total of 40 patients received to study there were 32 (80%) women and 8 (%20) men. While the groups age range, 14-45 years, mean age ranged from 23.6±9.3 years. The most frequent cause of the suicide attempt was marital discord (n:13,32.5%) followed by the interpersonal problems (n: 15, %37.5). 23 (57.5%) of cases had prior psychiatric disorder history. 82.5 % of attempts were done by taking drugs. While 35(87.5%) of the patients have not previously attempted suicide, 5 (12.5%) of patients previously attempted suicide. Conclusion: There are more suicide attempts in women than men. Previous suicide attempt and having family history of suicide are detected as basic risk factors. The most striking result of this work is that psychiatric consultations are not demanded for the cases in highly big amounts. Careful and close follow-up of patients with psychiatric disorders and assurance of subsequent psychiatric examination-follow up of the cases who attempted suicide are of vital importance since psychiatric disorders are among the etiology of suicidal attempts.

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Suicide attempt , Psychiatric consultation, Demographic qualities

Kocatepe Medical Journal

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Kocatepe Medical Journal