Factors influencing suicidal attempt among the agrarian community of central Maharashtra
Author(s) -
Kshirod Kumar Mishra,
Joge Vivek Prabhakar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_84_20
Subject(s) - agrarian society , rural population , population , rural community , suicide prevention , rural area , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , poison control , psychology , geography , demography , agriculture , sociology , pathology , archaeology
Attempted suicides occur 8-20 times more frequently than completed suicides. Attempted suicides are just the tip of the iceberg of the completed suicides, now a universal phenomenon. Several factors such as financial constraints, altercation among family members, and easy availability of pesticides have been attributed as the common factors for attempted suicide among the rural population.
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