scholarly journals A case report on attempted suicide by hanging of an adolescent girl

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-80
Author(s):  
Kashyap Narsingh Shakya ◽  
Anwesh Bhatta ◽  
Bikash Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Young People ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Adolescent Girl ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicidal Attempt

Suicidal attempt by hanging is a growing problem during adolescence. Globally, 8.5 % of all deaths among young people is accounted for by suicide. It is preventable, provided the risk factors and pre-suicidal behavior are identified for averting such a tragic happening. Pediatricians have crucial role to play in this.

Availability and accessibility of medications and toxic substances and suicidal behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S596-S596
Author(s):  
M. Arsenyan ◽  
S. Sukiasyan ◽  
T. Hovhannisyan
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Suicide Method ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Suicidal Crisis

IntroductionScientific research indicates that accessibility of suicide means has a significant influence on the choice of method. Since the choice of suicide method largely depends on availability of suicide means, the lethality of method at hand plays a crucial role in a period of suicidal crisis.AimsWe aimed to reveal the associations between accessibility and availability of medications and toxic substances and suicidal behavior of teenage girls in Armenia.ObjectiveOur objectives were to determine whether accessibility and availability of medications and toxic substances have any impact on development of suicidal behavior among teenage girls in Armenia and whether toxicity and quantity of medications and toxic substances at hand or purchased by attempters are associated with severity of outcome.MethodsA qualitative analysis of patient histories of 26 teenage girls, hospitalized in the ICU, Toxicology Center “Muratsan”, Yerevan, RA, diagnosed as having acute deliberate self-poisoning was performed.ResultsIn majority of cases, conflict situation preceded suicidal behavior and decision on attempting suicide was impulsive. Being emotionally distressed teenage girls reached for medications and toxic substances readily available in the household or bought medications from a pharmacy.ConclusionThe vast majority of teenage girls attempted suicide by medications and toxic substances at hand. Admittedly, both, type of medication and quantity of pills or amount of toxic substances utilized, affected the severity of outcome. Hence, the availability and accessibility of medications and toxic substances played a crucial role in development of suicidal behavior and severity of outcome.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Psychosocial factors of suicidal behavior of adolescents: review of foreign studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
S.E Myrzabaev ◽  
◽  
M.S. Sadyrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Psychosocial Risk Factors ◽  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

This article aims to review research that seeks to find psychosocial factors of suicidal behavior among adolescents. The article deals with the sociological research of European authors who dealt with the problem of suicidal behavior of adolescents and young people aged 14-24 years. Studying these studies, the article shows the psychosocial risk factors for suicide and suicidal behavior among progeny.

Mental disorders as risk factors for suicidal behavior in young people: A meta-analysis and systematic review of longitudinal studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 152-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margalida Gili ◽  
Pere Castellví ◽  
Margalida Vives ◽  
Alejandro de la Torre-Luque ◽  
José Almenara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Longitudinal Studies ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Meta Analysis

scholarly journals Factors in the Assessment of Suicidality in Youth

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Posner ◽  
Glenn A. Melvin ◽  
Barbara Stanley ◽  
Maria A. Oquendo ◽  
Madelyn Gould
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Youth Suicide ◽  
Standardized Terminology ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Clinical Populations

ABSTRACTSuicide remains a leading cause of death among youth, and suicide ideation and behavior are relatively common in both normal and clinical populations. Clinicians working with young people must assess for the presence of suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, and other risk factors, in order to determine the level of risk. This paper provides the clinician with a summary of risk factors for youth suicide, as well as providing standardized terminology to enhance assessment of suicidal ideation and behavior.

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Attempted Suicide in Adult War-Affected Population of Eastern Uganda

Crisis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 314-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Kinyanda ◽  
Helen A. Weiss ◽  
Margaret Mungherera ◽  
Patrick Onyango-Mangen ◽  
Emmanuel Ngabirano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Eastern Uganda

Background: There is conflicting evidence on the relationship between war trauma and suicidal behavior. Some studies point to an increased risk of suicidal behavior while others do not, with a paucity of such data from sub-Saharan Africa. Aims: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of attempted suicide in war-affected Eastern Uganda. Method: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in two districts of Eastern Uganda where 1,560 respondents (15 years and older) were interviewed. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess risk factors of attempted suicide in this population. Results: Lifetime attempted suicide was 9.2% (n = 142; 95% CI, 7.8%–10.8%), and 12-month attempted suicide was 2.6% (n = 41; 95% CI, 1.9–3.5%). Lifetime attempted suicide was significantly higher among females 101 (11.1%) than among males 43 (6.5%; OR = 1.80, 95% CI 1.21–2.65). Factors independently associated with lifetime rate of attempted suicide among females were subcounty, being a victim of intimate partner violence, having reproductive health complaints, and having major depressive disorder. Among males these were belonging to a war-vulnerable group, having a surgical complaint, and having a major depressive disorder. Conclusions: In both sexes, the lifetime rate of attempted suicide was not independently directly related to experiences of war trauma. It was, however, indirectly related to war trauma through its association with psychological, somatic, and psychosocial sequelae of war.

scholarly journals Transcultural Differences in Risk Factors and in Triggering Reasons of Suicidal and Self-Harming Behaviour in Young People with and without a Migration Background

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6498
Author(s):  
Zeliha Özlü-Erkilic ◽  
Thomas Wenzel ◽  
Oswald D. Kothgassner ◽  
Türkan Akkaya-Kalayci
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Migration Background ◽  
Migrant Children

Minors with and without migration background can have different risk factors and triggering reasons for self-harming and suicidal behaviour. We retrospectively analysed the data of 192 children and adolescents to investigate the transcultural differences in self-harming, as well as suicidal behaviour in Austrian, Turkish, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS)-speaking patients, who were treated in an emergency out-patient clinic in Vienna. Our results showed transcultural differences in both behaviours. In all groups, females had higher rates of suicide attempts and self-harming behaviour than males. While Turkish-speaking patients received treatment more often, after attempted suicide, Austrians and BCS-speaking patients needed treatment more often for acute stress disorder. Suicide attempts and self-harming behaviours were triggered most frequently by intrafamilial problems, but more frequently in migrant patients. Turkish-speaking patients were at a more than 2 times (OR = 2.21, 95%CI: 1.408–3.477) higher risk for suicide attempts, and were triggered almost 3 times (OR = 2.94, 95%CI: 1.632–5.304) more often by interfamilial conflicts. The suicide attempts of BCS-speaking minors were more often caused by relationship and separation crises (OR = 2.56, 95%CI: 1.148–5.705). These transcultural differences in suicidal and self-harming behaviour of minors, demand an increase of transcultural competence to provide optimal treatment of migrant children.

Familial Study of Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents in Slovenia

Crisis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Marušič ◽  
Saška Roškar ◽  
Roderick H. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Adolescent Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Suicidal Thoughts ◽  
Anonymous Questionnaire ◽  
Increasing Risk ◽  
Familial Study ◽  
Suicidal Plans

Summary: The number of adolescents who attempt or complete suicide is increasing. Risk factors range from mental disorders, to problems at school, family problems, or difficulties in establishing relationships. A further important, and too often underestimated, risk factor for adolescent suicide is the presence of suicidal behavior in the adolescent's family. We investigated 184 high school adolescents in a region in Slovenia with a high suicide rate (30/100,000/year). They were questioned by means of an anonymous questionnaire about the presence of suicidal behavior in their relatives and about the presence of suicidal thoughts, plans, and acts in themselves. The results revealed that 13% of the adolescents studied had a relative who had attempted suicide and a further 9% of the adolescents had lost a relative due to suicide. About half of all females and almost a third of males had had suicidal thoughts (differences between sexes were statistically significant: χ2 = 6.13; p < .01). Attempted suicide among relatives was positively correlated with the presence of suicidal plans among adolescents (Φ = 0.15; p < .05). This correlation proved to be even stronger and statistically more significant in men when we split the sample by gender. All variables (suicidal thoughts, suicidal plans, and suicide attempts) in the adolescent males positively correlated with attempted suicide among their relatives (Φ = 0.28, p < .01; Φ = 0.26, p < .05; Φ = 0.34, p < .01; respectively). Our results speak in favor of a higher risk of suicidal behavior among adolescents with suicidal behavior in their families.

Prevalence and risk factors for suicidal behavior in young people presenting with first-episode psychosis in Hong Kong: a 3-year follow-up study

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing Chung Chang ◽  
Emily S. M. Chen ◽  
Christy L. M. Hui ◽  
Sherry K. W. Chan ◽  
Edwin Ho Ming Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Young People ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
First Episode Psychosis ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Episode Psychosis

scholarly journals Samobójstwa dzieci i młodzieży przed wybuchem II wojny światowej i obecnie — co się zmieniło, co pozostało bez zmian

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Anna Ziółkowska
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Current State ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The purpose of the article is an attempt to show the issue of suicides of children and young people in a historical perspective, by comparing the state of knowledge and methods of discussing the phenomenon from the pre-war period (until 1939) with the modern period. The first part of the work will be devoted to discussing the first papers on suicide issues that began to appear in Poland from the late nineteenth century to 1939. The second part of the article focuses on presenting the current state of knowledge on the frequency, risk factors and causes of suicide in children and young people. The last part of the work will be devoted to comparing the specifics and conditioning suicidal behavior in the discussed periods.

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