Epidemic of suicide by hanging in Lithuania: Does socio-demographic status matter?

Starkuvienė, Skirmantė; Kalèdiené, Ramuné; Petrauskienė, Jadvyga

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2006.04.009

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“…Among all these registered suicides cases, hanging was the commonest method used to commit suicide. 15 In this study out of 574 hanging cases, 159 (27.71%) were male and 415 (72.29 %) female. Among them 304( 52.96%) were married and 270(47.04%) were unmarried.…”

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A Medico Legal Study of Hanging Cases at Dhaka Medical College

Ahmad

Rahman

Hussain³

et al. 2015

Northern Int. Med. Coll. J.

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Objective : The objective of this study was to find out the physical charecteristics, cause, place as well as the injuries specially in neck structures, variation of ligature materials, ligature marks, position of knot in the study subjects. Methods :A total of 5114 autopsies were performed during the study period, out of which 574(11.22%) were hanging cases. Ligature strangulation and manual strangulation cases were excluded from this study.Various Data of this hanging victims regarding places of incidence, time, suspected causes of death (related information were gathered from the victims attendants), type of suspension were noted from the inquest report accompanying the dead bodies. Points regarding ligature material, position of knot, pattern of ligature marks, injury to neck structures,fracture of hyoid bone and thyroid cartilages were collected from the 3 rd copy of post mortem reports preserved in the Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Department of DMC. Finally data were analyzed and presented in table,graph and in pie chart.Results : Out of 574 hanging cases female were predominant (72.29%). Among them 304( 52.96%) were married. Marital disharmony/quarrel between couples was the main cause 172(29.96%) of hanging. Most of the victims 269(46.86%) were in the age group 21-30 years.Dopatta (orna) was the commonest 237(41.28%) ligature material. Considering the knot, most were situated at right side of neck 281 ( 48.95%).In this study single ligature mark has been found in 511(89.02%) cases and was non continuous in 478(83.27%) study subjects. In 520(90.59%) cases ligature was found above thyroid cartilage level. The mark was oblique in 509(88.68%) cases and impression corresponding to ligature material found in 126(21.95%) cases. Considering injury to neck structures most of them 448(78.04%) had stretching and elongation of neck, haemorrhage in underlying layers of neck skin in 372(64.81%). Injury to the other structures of neck were variable. Most of the victims 401(69.86%) hanged themselves at night. 545 body (94.95%) were recovered from inside the living room.Most victims had complete suspension 472 (82.23%). Conclusion :This retrospectivemedico legal study find out various data of hanging victims of one of the largest heath care center, Dhaka Medical College, which cover a large area of population. Though multi center prospective study should be carried out to find out our real situation.

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A Medico Legal Study of Hanging Cases at Dhaka Medical College

Ahmad

Rahman

Hussain³

et al. 2015

Northern Int. Med. Coll. J.

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“…With the exception of firearms suicides, which form a very small proportion of suicides here, hanging is the most lethal suicide method recorded and international research has suggested that males are more likely to be attracted to the more lethal and violent suicide methods than females. 2,4,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Echoes of this are found in the suicide trends here. The most common suicide method among females in Ireland is poisoning, generally accepted to be a less lethal approach than hanging, which is the most common method among males.…”

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“…One study reported that hangings by males was associated with the end of a relationship, 15 but no specific relationship has been uncovered between hanging and 'being single' in other studies. 2,5,16 Our finding that HSS deaths are more likely to be single than other suicides, therefore, requires further research.…”

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“…These victims were also older and have lower levels of education. 2 A second study compared hanging, firearms and non-domestic gas suicides among males in Queensland, Australia, and found that males who died through hanging were more likely to have had a history of suicide attempts than those who used a firearm, and were more likely to have been co-habiting with another, to have had 'legal trouble' and to have died in their private residence than those dying through non-domestic gas suicide. 3 These, and other studies, 4 5 are strongly suggestive of the presence of distinct risk-profiles across suicide victims and the potentially profound implications for primary and secondary suicide prevention cannot be ignored.…”

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The socio-demographic profile of hanging suicides in Ireland from 1980 to 2005

Sarma

Kola

2010

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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Abstract.This paper provides a comparison of the socio-demographic profile of hanging suicides and suicides by other means in Ireland from January 1 st 1980 to December 31st 2005. Data on 9674 suicides occurring in that time frame was provided by the Central Statistics Office of Ireland (CSO). 4031 (42%) of these deaths involved suicide by 'hanging, suffocation or strangulation' (HSS), with the remainder being suicides by other means. Binary logistic regressions were used to examine 6 potential risk factors for suicide across the two groups: Gender, marital status, employment in the agricultural sectors, residential location (urban/rural) and age were entered in block 1 of the analysis, with year of death (pre 1994 vs post 1994) added in a second block. Results indicate that those dying through hangings were statistically more likely to be male (OR=3.1, 95% CI=2.8-3.5), single (OR=1.3, 95% CI=1.2-1.4), ruraldwelling (OR=1.1, 95% CI=1.0-1.2), agri-employed (OR=1.3, 95% CI=1.1-1.4) and to have died since 1994 (OR=2.3, 95% CI=2.1-2.5). The magnitude of the group effect was moderate for all but the gender and time period comparisons. Hanging suicide victims (m=37.7, sd=16.7) were also significantly younger than other suicide victims (mean=42.72, sd=16.7), although the size of the effect was small (r=.16). Overall the 6 variables explained 6 percent of the variance in the criterion variable.

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“…In hanging, these mechanisms should not be considered separately [1][2][3][4][5]. Hanging is known as the most frequently used method of suicide worldwide [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. It has been reported that about 2000 suicide deaths due to hanging occurs per year in England [15].…”

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Suicidal Hanging in Eskisehir, Turkey: 25 Year Analysis

Karbeyaz¹,

Çelikel²,

Balci³

2017

J Forensic Res

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In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the autopsy findings of deaths due to hanging in the last 25 years in Eskisehir province located in western Anatolia and to share them in the literature. The gender, age, scene of crime, the material used for hanging type and hanging, autopsy findings and toxicological findings were examined using the data of Eskişehir Forensic Medicine Branch Directorate and judicial investigation files in that period. It was determined that hanging cases have increased in the recent years. 65.1% of the cases were male 72.1% of the cases were typical hanging. Hanging cases can only be solved by the collective work of crime scene investigators, police officers, prosecutors and doctors.

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Epidemic of suicide by hanging in Lithuania: Does socio-demographic status matter?

Cited by 36 publications

References 14 publications

A Medico Legal Study of Hanging Cases at Dhaka Medical College

A Medico Legal Study of Hanging Cases at Dhaka Medical College

The socio-demographic profile of hanging suicides in Ireland from 1980 to 2005

Suicidal Hanging in Eskisehir, Turkey: 25 Year Analysis

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