Psychiatric Co-Morbidity in Patients with Attempted Suicide- A Hospital Based Study
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
Suicide is fatal act that represents the person’s wish to die. There is a range, however, between thinking about suicide and acting it out. Some persons have ideas of suicide that they will never act on. In all countries, suicide is now one of the three leading causes of death among people. Until recently, the suicide rate was highest for the elderly, but now suicide predominates in younger people. In psychological sciences, the term stress is used to denote an influence that is disquieting or disruptive to a person’s emotional status that cannot be mastered or encompassed within a reasonable period of time. Since there is paucity of relevant data from Maharashtra, this study was designed to find the personality traits in patients of suicidal attempt in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Navi Mumbai. Hundred successive patients presents with history of attempted suicide who filled inclusion and exclusion criteria were taken up for the study and administered the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) scale for evaluation of personality traits. Each patient was informed about the purpose of interview; his/her consent was obtained and strict confidentiality was ensured. General description, demographic data and psychiatric history were recorded using the self designed proforma and the IPDE. Majority of the suicide attempters (58%) were of young age group (18-25) years with female predominance (62%) were unmarried (59%) and belonged to Hindu (87%). Major Depressive Disorder was main psychiatric co-morbidity seen with 28% followed by alcohol dependence (21%) and panic disorder with 13%. Major Depressive Disorder was predominant co-morbidity found in patients of attempted suicide
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Junaid Nabi
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