background: one of the important aspects of the epidemiologic study of suicide and its related behaviors is the identification of suicide methods. this study aimed to investigate the geographical epidemiology of common methods of suicide and suicide attempts in fars province located in southwestern iran during the years 2010-2013. materials and methods: the present study was conducted on 17,342...

Approximately 28 percent of Canadians begin to experience a mental health issue during their youth. In this article, we explore patients' perceptions of their mental healthcare experiences within a sample of youth who reported anxiety or depressive symptoms and past suicidal ideations. The study data is taken from in-depth interviews with 23 youth in British Columbia. Interview topics included ...

objective: suicide represented 1.8% of the total global burden of disease in1998 and it will increase to 2.4% in 2020. we performed a cross sectional study to assess the prevalence of suicide ideation, attempt and its associated factors. method: we designed a cross sectional study in mahan and bardsir cities, kerman province, iran. based on the multistage cluster sampling, 860subjects aged 15 a...

background worldwide, suicide ranks among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years. an estimated 800000 people die by committing suicide annually. objectives to better understand the association between aggressive suicidal attempt and non-aggressive suicidal attempt in patients with suicide attempt in the emergency department. patients and methods a cross-sectional observa...

Psychiatric symptoms associated with hypothyroidism are well recognised. The common mental manifestations are slowness and difficulty in apprehension, thought and action; psychomotor retardation with indecision and listlessness suggestive of a depressive syndrome.' ,2 What is perhaps less well recognised is that patients with hypothyroidism may also present with marked irritability, paranoid id...

background: beck scale for suicidal ideation (bssi) is a widely used instrument to assess suicidality. however, there is only limited information about the psychometric characteristics of bssi in the persian language. in this study, we investigated the validity, reliability and factor structure of the bssi in the general population of tehran.   methods : initially, 900 questionnaire packages we...

background: suicide is one of the most important health problems in communities and knowledge of rates and epidemiology of it in any region could help in control and preventing programs .longitudinal registration of annual death data has been employed in this study. methods: in an analytical and cross sectional study pre conducted forms of suicide was engaged to register data , crude and specif...