background and aim: one of the most important subjects in the study of suicide is the methods used to it. there are not accurate statistics relating to employed physical methods for suicide in our country. studies conducted in different provinces provided different results. this study aimed to estimate the prevalence of physical methods used in attempted suicides in iran. materials and methods:...

background: suicide has constituted a critical public health problem for many decades. the number of completed suicide is traditionally high in iran. the objective of the present study was to describe the patterns of methods of suicide among registered deaths due to suicide in hamada, western iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, all completed suicide cases (n=146) were included from ma...

conclusions this study highlights the burden of suicide and itspotential socio-demographic risk factors in sistan and blouchestan province. this information has an implication for planning the preventive measures, policy making and future research. results a greater proportion of the study subjects (65%) were female. they were more likely to be young (43.5% in the age group of 16 to 25 years) a...

background: suicide can be defined as an intentional act of self harm that leads to death. the aim of the present study was to determine the epidemiological characteristics of suicide cases which were recorded by rafsanjan legal medical organization from 2004 to 2009.   materials and methods: this descriptive study was carried out in the year 2010 in rafsanjan county of kerman province which is...

  Background: Suicide can be defined as an intentional act of self harm that leads to death. The aim of the present study was to determine the epidemiological characteristics of suicide cases which were recorded by Rafsanjan Legal Medical Organization from 2004 to 2009.   Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out in the year 2010 in Rafsanjan County of Kerman ...

background: suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of iranian ministry of health and medical education (mhme). the suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by primary health care (phc) network. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into phc network...

BACKGROUND Several previous studies have illustrated that restricting access to lethal methods can reduce suicide rates. The most often cited example was Kreitman's study, showing a reduction not only in gas-specific suicide rates, but also in the overall suicide rates because of the lack of increase of other methods. However, method substitution is still a major concern in the application of t...

objective: suicide attempt may follow a process right from the inception of the first information about ‎suicide until the act itself. this study was conducted to determine the relationship between ‎perception of suicide prevention with the process of suicide attempt and demographic ‎variables following a suicidal attempt.‎ method: in this hospital based cross-sectional study, 168 consecutive a...