relationship of family features, coping styles and stressor life events with suicide attempt

abstract aim and background: the aims of this study were to investigate risk factors for suicide attempte and compered it’s with non attempters. methods and materials: in a case-control study, 120 individuals suiside attempeter who had presented to shahid madani in the city of azarshahr were compered with 140 control who were selected using conveniennce sampling, and were matched by a number of demographic factors with each other. data were gathered using family assessment device (fad) , coping style questionnaire and researcher-made stressor life events checklist, and were analyzed via logistic regression and t-test. findings: suicide attempeter had a poor performance in family features such as relation (p=0.02), problme solving (p=0.001), roles (p=0.001), sentiment sensitivity (p=0.01), sentiment involvement (p=0.001) and family general function (p=0.001) ,use emotion oriented coping style in general (p=0.001) and experinced stressor life events more than non attempters (p=0.001). 66 percent of the variance related to the suicide attempt is due to problme solving, family general function, problem oriented coping style and stressor life events, among which stressor life events (58 precent) and family general function had the lowest (1 percent) share. conclusions: unfavorable family features , ineffective coping style and stressor life events can lead to increased psychological issues such as suicide attempt.