ABSTRACT

Objective:

In this study, socio-demographic and psychiatric evaluation of the patients who attempted suicide by drug intake was aimed.

Material and Methods:

Patients over the age of 18, who agreed to participate in our study, and admitted to the emergency department with conscious suicidal behavior between January 2009-January 2011 were enrolled in this prospective study.

Results:

A total of 122 patients were enrolled in the study. The most majority of the patients were consisted of female gender (68.9%), in the 18-24 age group, single, unemployed, graduate from elementary or high school, a member of a large family including 4-5 people, with a monthly income below TL 1000, and the individuals were found to be in economic distress. Chronic systemic disease, psychiatric disorders, and suicide attempts in the past, and a family history of suicide attempts were statistically significantly increased the assets of suicidal thinking. Most of the patients were diagnosed as depression and anxiety disorders, and they were recommended to use psychiatric drug therapy and psychiatric follow-up support to come again.

Conclusion:

Suicide motion, a method that is applied as a result of the social, economic, familial and psychiatric problems, with which individual faces, is a way of expressing oneself or a way of alternative solution according to the individual. Through the support given to individuals having suicide tendency, a decrease in suicide risk among the mentioned people can be actualized. For this purpose, the socio -demographic features of patients attempted suicide must be well known and must be evaluated by psychiatry.