Faruk KURUHAN, Gülsüm Zuhal KAMİŞ, Abdullah ATLI

Examining of The Individuals Who Have Attempted Suicide In The East of Turkey In Terms of Psychological Factors

We aimed to retrospectively review the data of the people applying to our hospital due to suicide attempt in the last 8 yearsand to examine the psychiatric diagnoses and sociodemographic data of the patients. Methods: The data of 940 patientsexamined in our hospital between 2012-2019 due to suicide attempts were reviewed retrospectively. Characteristics likeage, gender, occupation, marital status, previous psychiatric treatment, presence of psychiatric illness and presence ofpsychiatric drug if the attempt is by drug were examined from patients’ data files. Results: In this study, 403 (42.9%) of th eapplicants were male and 537 (57.1%) were female. Suicide attempts were done by a sharp device, hanging, jumping offrespectively, and the least by firearm and the most by drugs. Considering the distribution of psychiatric diagnoses, it wasseen that 153 (31.1%) of them had depressive disorders, 121 (24.6%) had substance and alcohol use disorder and 55(11.2%) had personality pathology. Conclusion: A significant number of the applicants applying the emergency departmentfor suicide attempt were single, unemployed and students. The most common suicide attempt age range was 20 -25.Psychological problems and psychiatric disorder history are important predictors of a person's future suicide attempt

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