Demographic characteristics of adolescents with a history of suicide attempt in Larestan, Iran: 2012-2018
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Suicide attempt is one of the major health problems for many countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate the demographic characteristics of adolescents with a history of suicide attempt in Larestan, Iran.

Methods

This was a descriptive study. The statistical population of this study was all registered cases of adolescent with suicide attempt referred to the health and social emergency centers in the city of Larestan between 2012 to 2018. In this study,. Data were analyzed by using chi-square test. The significance level was considered at 0.05.

Results

There were 184 adolescents with a history of suicide attempt. Of these 123 records were for females (66.8%); the mean age of the adolescents was 17.48 ±1.63 years, and 146 cases (79.3%) were single.  In all 20 cases (10.9%) had a history of previous suicide attempts. Overall 5 cases died due to suicide. There was a statistically significant difference between suicide attempt and gender (p = 0.01). Also, the reason for suicide attempt had a significant relationship with marital status
 (p = 0.05).

Conclusion

The findings suggest that the risk of suicide is higher among single and female adolescents.

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Persian
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Pages:
475 to 483
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