Suicidal continuum (ideation, planning, attempting) in an Islamic country; which should be focused on?

Many factors affect suicide including psychological, social, biological, cultural and environmental factors.4 However, some of them like personality characteristics, psychopathology, parenting style, family function, and substance abuse have got more attention.5'6 It should be noted that suicid...

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Published in:Journal of injury and violence research 2021-01, Vol.13 (1), p.47-54
Main Authors: Khajedaluee, Mohamad, Khadem-Rezaiyan, Majid, Jarahi, Lida, Khatibi-Moghadam, Hoda, Faridpak, Afsaneh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Divorce
Emergency medical care
Gender
Global health
Planning
Population
Questionnaires
Rural health care
Suicides & suicide attempts
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Summary:Many factors affect suicide including psychological, social, biological, cultural and environmental factors.4 However, some of them like personality characteristics, psychopathology, parenting style, family function, and substance abuse have got more attention.5'6 It should be noted that suicide is not even an isolated event, but a continuum of processes starting from suicidal ideation (SI), suicidal plan (SP), suicide attempt (SA), to suicide completion.7 SI which is defined as thoughts of self-killing is an important factor not only for tremendous personal distress, psychological burden or mentalhealth problems but also for the SP, SA and completed suicide. There is no doubt that suicide has enduring financial, emotional, and social impact on the friends and family of attempters. [...]the prevention of suicide is critical. Some studies have reported that a wide range of interventions including healthy decision making, development of life skills and self-esteem enhancement can reduce suicidal behavior.9'10 However, it seems that effective suicide prevention measures will not be effective unless there is a clear understanding of the patterns of SI/SP.11-12 Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the WHO including Iran, are traditionally considered to be characterized by low rates of suicidal behaviors (0-3.1 per 100,000). [...]the main aim of this study was to identify the main epidemiological characteristics of SI, SP, and SA in suicide attempters. Besides we tried to study the whole suicidal continuum (i.e. from SI to SA) to see in what proportion of suicide attempts the whole cycle happens.
ISSN:2008-2053
2008-4072
DOI:10.5249/jivr.vl3il.1556