Trend and epidemiology of suicide attempts by self-poisoning among Egyptians

Suicide attempts by self-poisoning have become a critical health problem. This study aimed to investigate the trend, incidence, and the associated risk factors of suicide attempts by self-poisoning. A total of 7398 Egyptian patients were analyzed. The trend of suicide attempts by self-poisoning was...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:PloS one 2022-06, Vol.17 (6), p.e0270026-e0270026
Main Authors: Kasemy, Zeinab A, Sharif, Asmaa Fady, Amin, Safaa Abdelzaher, Fayed, Manar Maher, Desouky, Dalia E, Salama, Amal A, Abo Shereda, Hanaa Mohammad, Abdel-Aaty, Nehad B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidental poisoning
Adult
Biology and Life Sciences
Egypt - epidemiology
Epidemiology
Fatalities
Forecasts and trends
Health risks
Hospitalization
Humans
Incidence
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental health
Mortality
Multivariate analysis
People and Places
Poisoning
Poisoning - epidemiology
Risk analysis
Risk Factors
Self-poisoning
Socioeconomics
Statistics
Suicidal behavior
Suicide
Suicide, Attempted
Suicides & suicide attempts
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Suicide attempts by self-poisoning have become a critical health problem. This study aimed to investigate the trend, incidence, and the associated risk factors of suicide attempts by self-poisoning. A total of 7398 Egyptian patients were analyzed. The trend of suicide attempts by self-poisoning was analyzed using 6745 patients over four registry years from January 1, 2016, to January 1, 2020. Then, the associated risk factors behind attempted suicide by self-poisoning from January 1, 2019, to January 1, 2020, were assessed using 2523 suicide attempters by self-poisoning, 201 fatalities by self-poisoning, and another 653 survivors of accidental poisoning. Results showed a rising trend of suicide attempts by self-poisoning over the studied years. The incidence of suicide attempts through deliberate self-poisoning represented 26.63/1,000 (CI95%: 25.63-27.86) to the admitted patients and 26.10/100,000 (CI95%: 25.10-27.14) to the regional population. The death rate due to suicide attempts by self-poisoning was 2.08/100,000 (1.90-2.49). The case fatality rate and the proportionate mortality rate for suicide by self-poisoning were 7.38% (CI95%: 6.45-8.42) and 14.11% (CI95%: 12.4-16.0) respectively. Multivariate analysis revealed that attempted suicide by self-poisoning was predicted among patients aged
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0270026