The Procedure of Changes in Ilam Provience Related to Suicide Practice

After the war, the high rate of suicide raised a concern among the researches and health officials, this research is done to examine the procedure of changes happened in this regard which took about 8 years. We used the total number of those who practiced suiciding in 1373-1380, statistically recorded in Ilam. To recognize and form a quotation we followed the time curve that represented two increasing trends in these years. Significant findings were reported such as: 1- the rate of practicing of suiciding was always higher than the suiciding commitment. 2- Most of those who committed suiciding were women than men. 3- Number of villagers took part in suiciding was higher than city alwellers 4- singles showed a higher rate than married. 5- Even it was bigger among those who were jobless, homeless and uneducated. 6- The average age is 24.22 who think about suiciding and 26.67 of those who committed it, and 7- this problem happened mostly in ordibehesht, mordad and shahrivar, khordad and tir. 8- The most common way of suiciding was taking pills or poisons 9- most of the victims lived in small towns such as Abdanan and Dareh shahr and less were in Ilam, Dehloran. 10- The tendency of suiciding was more in Iran and Dareh shahr and less in Dehloran and Mehran.