AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR AND SUICIDE PROBABILITY IN ADOLESCENT MALES

Abstract

Background: Aggressive behavior and probability of suicide in adolescents are increased in last decades this affects most communities in our world increasing and socio-economic burden and stress health care facilities. Objective: To compare suicide probability and aggressive behavior in rural and urban areas and relation between probability of suicide and aggressive behavior in adolescents. Patients and Methods: Total sample of this study was 295 male student,105 student from Zorkan secondary school at Zorkan Village, Tala Center, El-Menofeya Governorate and 190 students from Khalil Agha secondary school in Bab El-Sheria Cairo Governorate selected in random manner. All participants were subjected to suicide probability scale, semi-structured clinical psychiatric interview and socioeconomic standard form during the period from December 2019 to April 2020. Results: This study revealed that there was a high suicide risk in the sample divided into three groups: group of mild risk (46.1%), group of moderate risk (25.1%) and group of sever risk (11.9%), Suicide risk increased in urban sample than rural sample in statistical significant degree, There was a positive correlation between suicide risk and aggressive behavior in statistical significant degree, Prevalence of psychiatric disorders was(11.53%) in the total sample, (11.58%) in urban sample and (11.435%) in rural sample, Prevalence of depression in rural sample was (8.57%) and (7.89%) in urban sample while prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder in rural sample was (2.86%) and in urban sample was (2.635%), Prevalence of obsessive- compulsive disorder in urban sample was (1.05%) and no cases in rural sample, there was a positive correlation between suicide probability, aggressive behavior and psychiatric morbidity in a significant degree in the sample as a whole. Conclusion: Suicide probability and aggression in adolescents was increased in urban areas in Egypt than in rural areas also the increasing rate of aggressive behavior increased the rate of probability of suicide in adolescents.