High Risk Suicide Factors Across Cultures

Bhatia, Subhash C.; Khan, Mujeeb H.; Mediratta, Ravinder P.; Sharma, Arun

doi:10.1177/002076408703300307

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“…This finding supports a similar assertion from other cross-cultural comparisons of suicidal behavior, acknowledged in Chapter 3 of Goldsmith and colleagues (2002), emphasized in the World Mental Health Report (Desjarlais et al 1995) and with particular reference to study of suicide in India (Bhatia et al 1987). It appears that suicidal behavior, both fatal and nonfatal, is less easily linked directly to pre-existing enduring psychiatric disorders.…”

Section: Cross-cultural Features Of Suicidal Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 87%

Gender, Suicide, and the Sociocultural Context of Deliberate Self-Harm in an Urban General Hospital in Mumbai, India

Parkar

Dawani

Weiss

2008

Cult Med Psychiatry

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Recognizing the complementary effects of social contexts and psychiatric disorders, this study clarifies the role of gender in suicidal behavior in urban Mumbai by considering psychiatric diagnoses and patient-identified sociocultural features. The cultural epidemiological approach suggests the critical impact of situational sociocultural factors that complement the customary psychopathological accounts for those who harm or kill themselves. The cultural epidemiology of deliberate self-harm (DSH), it is argued, is critical to planning for suicide prevention, community mental health and psychiatric practice. This study, based on a cultural epidemiological framework, compares male and female admissions for DSH, evaluating conditions with SCID-I and EMIC interviews. We assessed features and narratives of suicidal behavior, patient-identified underlying problems, their perceived causes and triggers. The study included 92 women and 104 men. A diagnosis of depressive disorder was made for 48.9 percent of women and 39.4 percent of men. Many patients (50.0 percent of women and 41.3 percent of men) did not fulfill the criteria for any diagnosis, or did so only for an adjustment disorder or a V-code. Men typically explained DSH with reference to work problems, financial problems and problem drinking. Women typically discussed domestic problems, inlaw relations and victimization. Problem drinking affected women living with men who drank. Social and situational factors appear to play a relatively greater role than psychiatric illness in self-harm and suicide in Mumbai, as in other Asian studies, compared with Europe and North America.

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Section: Cross-cultural Features Of Suicidal Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 87%

Gender, Suicide, and the Sociocultural Context of Deliberate Self-Harm in an Urban General Hospital in Mumbai, India

Parkar

Dawani

Weiss

2008

Cult Med Psychiatry

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“…It is true that suicide increases with advancing age in most countries which report data, but there are exceptions. For example, in Venezuela and Mexico rates in females are highest in the young (1 5-29 years) (Diekstra, 1989), in Jordan the peak age group for suicide is 15-34 years (Daradkeh, 1989), and in India suicides tend to decrease rather than increase with age (Bhatia et al, 1987). This pattern is also found in Indian immigrants to the UK (Raleigh et al, 1990), so our assumptions about age when assessing suicide risk are probably not appropriate for this ethnic group.…”

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Suicide in the elderly

Lindesay

1991

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…Therefore expressing emotions or admitting to suicidal thoughts is deemed unacceptable [12]. This is true in many developing countries, and leads to underreporting of the mental health problems across the whole population [34]. This stigma is also associated with discrimination within local communities, thereby Review Article denying access to social gatherings and sometimes employment if their mental illness is disclosed.…”

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Why Are So Many Nepali Women Killing Themselves? A Review Of Key Issues

Simkhada

Teijlingen

Winter

et al. 2015

J. Manmohan Memorial Inst. Health. Sci.

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For decades the maternal mortality in Nepal was the lead cause of death among women, with serious improvements in the maternal mortality ratio in the twentieth century the second most common cause has become more prominent. Suicide is now one of the leading causes of death for women of a reproductive age in Nepal.This scoping review brings together the key available literature to identify the causes of suicide among women in Nepal. Published and unpublished studies and the grey literature published on women and suicide related to Nepal between 2000 and 2014 were searched and included in this review.This review suggested a number of explanations for high rate of suicide among women including: partner violence, alcoholism and polygamy, the culture of silence, early age marriage and prolonged child bearing and dependency on men for financial security. This paper highlights some challenges and suggests ways forward in the improvement of mental health in Nepal.

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High Risk Suicide Factors Across Cultures

Cited by 51 publications

References 14 publications

Gender, Suicide, and the Sociocultural Context of Deliberate Self-Harm in an Urban General Hospital in Mumbai, India

Gender, Suicide, and the Sociocultural Context of Deliberate Self-Harm in an Urban General Hospital in Mumbai, India

Suicide in the elderly

Why Are So Many Nepali Women Killing Themselves? A Review Of Key Issues

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