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Suicide in Batman, Southeastern Turkey
Author(s) -
Altindag Abdurrahman,
Ozkan Mustafa,
Oto Remzi
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1521/suli.2005.35.4.478
Subject(s) - demography , suicide rates , suicide prevention , medicine , male to female , psychiatry , injury prevention , social life , occupational safety and health , poison control , medical emergency , epidemiology , history , sociology , pathology , ethnology
The southeastern part of Turkey has comparatively high female suicide rates. We aimed to research social, economic, cultural, and psychiatric reasons of suicides in Batman in a case‐controlled psychological autopsy study comparing suicides with matched community controls. The female suicide rate was 9.3 per 100.000 and the female/male ratio was 1.72/1. The suicides most frequently occurred in young females, mean age 20.7. The most frequent method (45%) was hanging. The most frequent stressful life events were health problems and family disruption. High suicide rates among females may be related to negative social status of females living in the region.