Investigating the effective factors of suicide

Suicide is one of the most serious threats to human health in modern societies, which has drawn the attention of psychologists in recent decades. In order to prevent the unfortunate consequences of this phenomenon, it is necessary to study the contexts and causes which lead to it. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting suicide in Hamadan province, Iran.

The statistical population of this mixed research (quantitative and qualitative) included 1055 people who had committed suicide in Hamadan province, in 2017 and 2018. Seventy-two of them were selected through convenient sampling method. They were interviewed and answered the researcher-made questionnaire. Data analyzed through descriptive statistics, variance analysis, independent and correlative t test, and context analysis. 

Depression (M= 21.28), crisis management (M= 19.23), economic problems (M= 18.18), feeling of loneliness (M= 18.18) and family or marital problems (M= 16.60) are the most important predictors of suicide in Hamadan province. Moreover, suicide in men is higher than women, and at the level of undergraduate education there are more suicide attempts.

Based on the findings, we can use strategies to reduce factors such as depression, economic problems, loneliness and family problems as well as using strategies to increase crisis management in individuals to reduce the rate of suicide attempt.