Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital
Introduction: Suicide is a rapidly growing and critical public health concern in India and around the world. Interpersonal, social, familial, psychological along with genetic vulnerabilities were important risk factors for suicidal attempts. Methods: This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study...
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| description | Introduction: Suicide is a rapidly growing and critical public health concern in India and around the world. Interpersonal, social, familial, psychological along with genetic vulnerabilities were important risk factors for suicidal attempts.
Methods: This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study done at King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam. All the suicide attempters admitted to the General Medicine department were evaluated at the psychiatric department. A total of 117 patients were included in our study with convenient sampling. Beck’s suicide intent scale, Presumptive stressful life event scale, and semi-structured proforma for socio-demographic and clinical variables were used to assess the study participants.
Results: Financial struggles (19.6%) and conflict with family members (14.5%) were the stressful life events among most of the suicide attempts. Most of the study sample used pesticide consumption (20.5%) as the commonest mode of suicidal attempt. The majority of the suicide attempters (53%) had medium suicidal intent. There was a significant association between marriage and stressful life event score (p=0.001). The use of pesticides was significantly higher among men than women (p=0.002) and the use of household agents was significantly high among women than men (p=0.013).
Conclusion: Psychosocial stressors also play an important role in attempting suicide and hence to prevent suicidal attempts, there is a need for the development of innovative strategies to decrease the stigma, to improve coping skills and to promote help-seeking from mental health services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f59f1811bb0454cb9b48e21deecd2042023-11-28T16:18:38ZengPrathima Institute of Medical SciencesPerspectives In Medical Research2348-14472348-229X2023-08-0111291610.47799/pimr.1102.0303Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospitalSabbella Chandana0Medikonduri Vijaya Lakshmi1Neredumilli Prasanna Kumar2Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Andhra Medical College, VisakhapatnamAssociate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Andhra Medical College, VisakhapatnamProfessor, Department of Psychiatry, Andhra Medical College, VisakhapatnamIntroduction: Suicide is a rapidly growing and critical public health concern in India and around the world. Interpersonal, social, familial, psychological along with genetic vulnerabilities were important risk factors for suicidal attempts. Methods: This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study done at King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam. All the suicide attempters admitted to the General Medicine department were evaluated at the psychiatric department. A total of 117 patients were included in our study with convenient sampling. Beck’s suicide intent scale, Presumptive stressful life event scale, and semi-structured proforma for socio-demographic and clinical variables were used to assess the study participants. Results: Financial struggles (19.6%) and conflict with family members (14.5%) were the stressful life events among most of the suicide attempts. Most of the study sample used pesticide consumption (20.5%) as the commonest mode of suicidal attempt. The majority of the suicide attempters (53%) had medium suicidal intent. There was a significant association between marriage and stressful life event score (p=0.001). The use of pesticides was significantly higher among men than women (p=0.002) and the use of household agents was significantly high among women than men (p=0.013). Conclusion: Psychosocial stressors also play an important role in attempting suicide and hence to prevent suicidal attempts, there is a need for the development of innovative strategies to decrease the stigma, to improve coping skills and to promote help-seeking from mental health services.https://pimr.org.in/2023-vol11-issue-2/originalarticle3_v2.pdfsuicidal attemptsuicidal intentstressful life events.psychosocial stressors |
| spellingShingle | Sabbella Chandana Medikonduri Vijaya Lakshmi Neredumilli Prasanna Kumar Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital Perspectives In Medical Research suicidal attempt suicidal intent stressful life events. psychosocial stressors |
| title | Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital |
| title_full | Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital |
| title_fullStr | Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital |
| title_short | Socio-demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital |
| title_sort | socio demographic correlates and psychosocial stressors among suicide attempters attending a tertiary care general hospital |
| topic | suicidal attempt suicidal intent stressful life events. psychosocial stressors |
| url | https://pimr.org.in/2023-vol11-issue-2/originalarticle3_v2.pdf |
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