background elimination of suicide attempts is impossible, but they can be reduced dramatically by an organized planning. the present study aimed to survey the suicide trends in fars province (iran), during 2004-2009 to better understand the prevalence and status of suicide.   methods this survey was a cross-sectional study. the demographic data were collected from the civil status registry betw...

Suicide rates in the United States have been steadily rising in proportion to other causes of death. The high incidence of suicidal behavior constitutes a major social and public health problems. The unemployment rate above the natural unemployment rate involves economic and social costs. The development of suicide prevention programs at the federal, state, and local levels has occurred to prev...

abstract aims: the reason of selecting self-immolation as a mean to commit suicide is unclear. this study was designed to compare 2 groups of people with and without intention to suicide that had self-immolated. instrument & methods: all 227 self-immolated patients who had been admitted to the burn unit of imam khomeini hospital of kermanshah city, iran, during 2003 to 2004  participated in thi...

ôbjective: presently, the issue of attempted suicide now poses one of the major challenges facing the health-care providers in ïran and other countries. âlthough in previous years, the number of people entering to hospital emergency departments after deliberately taking overdoses or injuring themselves has been steadily increased in ïran, however, there is less attention to the issue of suicide...

background: hydrogen sulfide (h2s) suicides have been frequent in japan in recent years. this study was performed to describe the epidemiologic profile of an outbreak of h2s suicides in japan. methods: in september 2008, questionnaires about patients involved in h2s suicides were sent to 250 hospitals in japan. data collected from each patient included gender, age, clinical manifestations, date...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, the suicide rate is decreasing. To examine changes in the rates of completed suicide in the Mexican population from 2003 to 2012, we analyzed these changes according to: (i) the method of suicide; (ii) age group and (iii) gender. METHODS The data analyzed were obtained from governmental organizations from the State of Tabasco, Mexico. The data provided 1836 cases of subj...

The aim of this study is to examine the mediating role self-efficacy in relationship between coronavirus anxiety and suicide probability university students during Covid-19 pandemic. 341 participated study. While analyzing data, Unpaired t Test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis Hierarchical Regression were used. At same time, bootstrapping method was used variable dependent independe...

objective: the aim of this study was to better understand the triggers of suicide, particularly among the ‎ancient greek and persian soldiers and commanders.‎ method: ‎‘herodotus: the histories’ is a history of the rulers and soldiery who participated in the ‎greco-persian wars (492-449 bce). a new translation (2013) of this manuscript was studied. ‎accounts of suicide were collected and collat...

Background: One of the important aspects of the epidemiologic study of suicide and its related behaviors is the identification of suicide methods. This study aimed to investigate the geographical epidemiology of common methods of suicide and suicide attempts in Fars Province located in Southwestern Iran during the years 2010-2013. Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted on 17,...