A SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SUICIDAL DEATHS
Keywords:
Suicide, risk factors of suicide, method of suicideAbstract
Suicide is a major public health problem and reflects the social and mental well being of a society. The study conducted between January 2011 and April 2012 includes 40 cases of suicides. It was observed that the maximum number of cases were in the age group of 20 to 30 years (50 %) and the male: female ratio was 2.07:1. A majority of the cases were from the urban areas and hanging was found to be the commonest method for suicide. The reasons for suicide were family problems, love disappointments, failure in studies, chronic illness, etc. Only 7.5% of the cases had past history of attempt to commit suicide.
References
National Crime Record Bureau. Website: http:// ncrb.nic.in/ accessed on 8.3.12. at 9:50pm
Murthy RS. Approaches to suicide prevention in Asia and the Far East. In: Hawton K, Van Heeringen K (eds). The international handbook of suicide and attempted suicide. Chichester: Wiley and sons; 2006: 631-44.
Sauvaget C, Ramadas K, Fayette JM, Thomas G, Thara S and Sankaranarayanan R. Completed suicide in adults of rural Kerela: Rates and
Gajalakshmi V and Peto R. Suicide rates in rural Tamil Nadu, South India: Verbal autopsy of 39000 deaths in 1997-98. International journal of epidemiology 2007; 36: 203-207.
Behera C, Dr (Lt Col) Rautji Ravi and Dogra TD. Sucide trends in South Delhi: A ten years retrospective study. Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology 2008; 25(2): 32-35.
Singh H, Sharma G and Aggarwal A. Trends of suicides in North Eastern Rural Haryana: A retrospective study. JIAFM 2007; 29(2): 64-67.
Kanchan T, Menon A and Menezes RG. Methods of choice in completed suicides: gender differences and review of literature. J Forensic Sci 2009 Jul; 54(4): 938- 42.
Bardale R, Tumram N, Dake M, Shrigiriwar M and Dixit P. Trends of suicides in urban area: a 5 year study. International journal of Medical Toxicology and Legal Medicine 2011; 13(3): 28-37.
Chavan BS, Gurvinder Pal Singh, Jaspreet Kaur and Reshma Kochar. Psychological autopsy of 101 suicide cases from northwest region of India. Indian J Psychiatry 2008 Jan- Mar; 50(1): 34-38.
Behera C, Rautji R and Sharma RK. Suicide in elderly: A study in South Delhi (1996-2005). Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology 2007; 1(2): 13-18.
Lalwani S, Sharma GASK, Kabra SK, Girdhar Shalini and Dogra TD. Suicide among children and adolescents in South Delhi (1991-2000). Indian journal of Pediatrics 2004 August; 71: 701-3.
Farooq Ahmed Khan, B Anand, M Gowri Devi and K Krishna Murthy. Psychological autopsy of suicide a cross sectional study. Indian J Psychiatry 2005 Apr Jun; 47(2): 73-78.
Lee CJ, Collins KA and Burgess SE. Suicide under the age of eighteen: a ten years retrospective study. Am J For Med Path 1999; 20: 22-30.
Soman CR, Safraj S, Kutty Raman V, Vijayakumar K and Ajayan K. Suicide in south India: A community based study in Kerala. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 2009 Oct-Dec; 51(4): 261-264.
Khajuria B, Sharma R, Bharti OC and Kumar D. Profile of Suicidal Autopsies in a militancy-affected state of India. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research 2007 December; 6: 505-510.
Roychowdhury UB, Pal M and Sukul B. Suicides in Kolkata metro railway. Journal of Indian Academy of forensic medicine 2009; 31(2): 118-121.
Behera A, Balabantray JK and Nayak SR. Review of suicidal cases, a retrospective study. JIAFM 2005; 27(2):100-102.
Mohanty S, Sahu G, Mohanty MK and Patnaik M. Suicide in India: a four year retrospective study. J Forensic Leg Med 2007 May; 14(4): 185-9.
Patil Basavaraj, Garampalli Santosh, Uzair Syed H, Kuppast Nagesh and Raghavendra KM. Suicidal trends in children and adolescents. Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology 2011; 5(1): 23-25.
Sharijia S, Sreekumari K and Geetha O. Epidemiological profile of suicide by hanging in Southern parts of Kerela: An autopsy based study. Journal of Indian Academy of forensic medicine 2011; 33(3): 237-240.
