İntihar Girişimi ile Acil Servise Başvuran Hastaların Demografik Özelliklerinin ve Klinik Sonuçlarının Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

Objectives:Suicide is a state of aggression that is voluntarily directed towards the self. Suicide cases with increasing mortality and morbidity rates with each passing day are an important public health problem. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the demographic characteristics, methods of suicide attempt with variable factors of clinical results of the patients who applied with the reason of suicide attempt, and to contribute to literature with the results. Methods: This study was performed retrospectively by examining forensic records and patient files of patients who came to a Training and Research Hospital Emergency Medicine Clinic with the reason of suicide between the dates of 01.12.2018-31.12.2018. Chi-Square Independence, Chi-Square Trend, and Fisher's Exact tests were used in statistical. p <0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: A total of 504 patients were included in our study.Among the participants, 70.4% were female and 29.6% were male. The mean age of the participants was 30.14. Education levels were evaluated, 67.7% were high school graduates, 22.4% university graduates, 8.1% middle school graduates and 1.8% elementary school graduates.The suicide attempt months between groups was not statistically significant in the presence of psychiatric disorder Glaskow coma scale, final clinical results, distribution of suicide attempt according to months and the time of suicide attempt was found to be statistically significant . Conclusion: The phenomenon of suicide is a situation that has not lost its importance on the agenda both in our country and the world for centuries as one of the causes of early death that can be prevented,unlike normal life expectancy.We believe that individuals should be, in addition to check-ups starting in primary school, periodically checked for mental health starting from school age, and that possible suicide attempts can be prevented by working together with psychological counselors starting from school age.