undoubtedly, attempt to self-inflicted burning needs special conditions for special individuals. self-inflicted burn is highly depended on individual and social factors. this study is aimed at evaluating the burning percent, age, economical conditions, educational levels, occupation, and marital status of the self-inflicted burn females of taleghani hospital. this is a descriptive- sectional st...

A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the different characteristics of attempted suicide by self-inflicted burn cases compared with other accidental burn cases admitted to the Burns Unit in Al-Jumhoori Teaching Hospital in Mosul over a one-year period from March 1, 2011 to March 1, 2012. Of 459 burn cases, 103 (22.44%) had self-inflicted burns. The mean total body surface area of...

Introduction: Suicide is a major challenge to public health worldwide, and self-inflicted burn is one of the most violent suicide methods. Case Presentation: In this case, a self-inflicted hot oil burn in a male with schizotypal personality and major depressive disorder is reported. Conclusion: Psychiatric disorders, marital problem...

OBJECTIVE To highlight the demographic profile, various methods of self inflicted burn, and to probe into the problem by knowing various precipitating factors that may lead to self inflicted burn in our part of the country. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a study of 154 cases of self-inflicted burns treated at the Burn Emergency Unit of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro ...

Committing Suicide is an awful way to die as well as a historical psycho-social problem of human community worldwide. Suicide is an action deliberately initiated and performed by a person with complete awareness of its fatal outcome, prevalence of which is very rare in developed countries, but it is reported with more frequency in Baltic region, Africa (including Egypt), The Middle East (includ...

This study examined self-inflicted burns in case series of four patients with chronic combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Those patients were hospitalized in the Burn Unit of the University Hospital of Traumatology in Zagreb because of severe burns and had a premorbid psychiatric history of PTSD. Demographic data and information regarding the circumstances surrounding the inci...

INTRODUCTION In the United Kingdom, the incidence of assault by burning and of self inflicted burns increased significantly over the last decade. This has major implications both for service providers and society as a whole. Our aim was to investigate the differences in patients' characteristics, management and outcome following a burn sustained by either an assault or self immolation. METHOD...

107 THE INFLUENCE OF PRE-EXISTING PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS ON RECOVERY IN BURN INJURY PATIENTS: THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOSIS AND DEPRESSION On the basis of the hypothesis that burn patients with a co-morbid psychiatric illness would have poorer outcomes in recovery from their injuries than patients with equivalent burn injuries but without preexisting psychiatric illness, 190 consecutive admissions to a ...