suicide and suicidal thoughts and behaviors is a global phenomenon and has existed throughout history. community reactions to suicide varied through history and historical periods as well. people had different attitudes towards it. suicide can be known as a threat to public health of the society. the painful truth behind suicide is the deep impact of it on the family, community and the society....

background: suicide has constituted a critical public health problem for many decades. the number of completed suicide is traditionally high in iran. the objective of the present study was to describe the patterns of methods of suicide among registered deaths due to suicide in hamada, western iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, all completed suicide cases (n=146) were included from ma...

objective: data on national rates of suicide is limited in iran, preventing an action plan for health scope of suicide prevention. the current brief study was conducted to review available national published data on suicide and to interpret the probable discrepancies. method: we evaluated all 20-year recent published original articles on committed suicides searching iranian scientific databases...

objective: suicide rate is unfortunately increasing in recent years and its assessment is a must. most studies have evaluated different factors like personality, depression, or environment in suicide attempters but cognitive functions have been overlooked in suicide attempters. the current research aimed to evaluate a kind of cognitive function, namely attention in survivors of suicide.  method...

abstract background: to investigate the predisposing and precipitating risk factors for suicide ideations and suicide attempts in young and adolescent females, we tried to introduce a holistic model of suicidal behavior in young and adolescent girls. methods: this study is based on the survey studies and was cross-sectional. considering high rates of suicide attempts in provinces of iran, three...