Pattern of Suicide: A Review of Autopsies Conducted at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret Kenya

Macharia, Benson; Iddah, M. A.; Ndiangui, Francis; Keter, Alfred

doi:10.11131/2015/101112

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“…Similar findings have been echoed in studies by Nayak and colleague 23 . Uchendu 25 reported cardiovascular disease as the predominant cause of natural death, but followed by obstetric and cerebrovascular deaths in contrast to our study.…”

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A one-year retrospective study on the pattern of death found at autopsy at Forensic Pathology Department, Menelik II Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Solano¹,

Mayedo²,

Seyoumk³

2017

East. Cent. Afr. J. Surg.

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A total of 4206 cases of deaths were done postmortem examination during the one-year study period. All these cases were grouped according to age, gender, manners and modalities of natural and unnatural deaths. The data collected was analyzed. Results: Out of total 4206 cases, the male to female ratio 3:1. The age group most commonly involved was 16-30 years (41,5%) followed by 31-55 years (38,3%). Only 7.8% were in the under 15years age group. The commonest mode of death in all age groups put together was accident in 1615 (38.4%) followed by natural death in 1156 (27.5%), homicidal deaths accounted for 698 (16.6%) followed by suicide in 508 (12%). In 229 (5.4%) of the cases the manner of death remained undetermined. Among 698 homicidal deaths, blunt weapon injury accounted for 61.4% and bullet injury were in 15.4%. Among the accidental deaths, road traffic injuries were 1092 (67.6%), followed by fall accident in 170 (10.5%). Hanging was the preferred modality of suicide (88.4%), followed by poisoning 51 (10%). Natural death accounted for 1190 (27.5%) and cardiac disease was the most predominant 453 (38%), followed by respiratory disease 240 (20.2%). Conclusion: Our study concludes that unnatural deaths exceeded enormously the natural deaths. Accident was the most dominant manner of death among the unnatural deaths. Road Traffic Accident was the commonest modality among accidental deaths. Fatalities caused by blunt weapon injuries were the commonest mode of homicide; whereas hanging was the preferred modality of suicide. Cardiovascular diseases were the leading causes of natural deaths. Most deaths are preventable, so concerned bodies are expected to take action of prevention and increase the public awareness of the real situation and the causes of both natural and unnatural deaths and subsequently make an impact in the decrement of death rate in our societies.

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A one-year retrospective study on the pattern of death found at autopsy at Forensic Pathology Department, Menelik II Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Solano¹,

Mayedo²,

Seyoumk³

2017

East. Cent. Afr. J. Surg.

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“…It was observed that the most common method employed for suicide is poisoning (n=48, 59.25%) followed by hanging (n=19, 23.45%) and drowning (n=12, 14.81%). Similar results were observed by studies done at Kolhapur [16] (Poisoning, 39.65 %;hanging,27.51% and drowning, 0.11%); Kenya [19](poisoning,91.54%;hanging, 7 . 9 8 % ) ; S u r a t [ 2 0 ] ( p o i s o n i n g , 4 0 .…”

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“…The authors found that maximum number of fatalities were among housewives (n=46, 56.8%), followed by students (30.8%) and service class (9.9%). Concordant findings were observed with the studies conducted at Behrampur as 66.5% [6]; South Banglore as 62.9% [13], Nagpur as 71.88% [14].Behrampur have also reported that housewives are the worst affected victims. In addition, the National Crime Records Bureau [2] data also reportshousewives to be worst affected by suicides, i.e., 17.1% of all suicides.…”

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Profile of Suicidal Deaths In Females: A Two Years’ Experience At A Tertiary Care Institute (An Observational Study)

Bhullar,

Walia,

Singh

et al. 2020

GMCP

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Suicidal female deaths are always a cause of concern for any civilized society. The present study was conducted in a leading tertiary care institute of North India to study the suicidal deaths among female population as only limited studies have been conducted in this region. This study found that most of the victims were in the third decade of life (44.5%) and married (64.2%). Most of the victims were housewives (56.8%) with rural preponderance (60.5%). Most of victims committed suicide by poisoning (56.8%) followed by hanging (23.5%) and drowning (16%). The study concluded that remedial measures including counselling facilities and counselling from the early young life should be the strategy to prevent and minimize unnatural female deaths.

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Pattern of Suicide: A Review of Autopsies Conducted at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret Kenya

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

A one-year retrospective study on the pattern of death found at autopsy at Forensic Pathology Department, Menelik II Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

A one-year retrospective study on the pattern of death found at autopsy at Forensic Pathology Department, Menelik II Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Profile of Suicidal Deaths In Females: A Two Years’ Experience At A Tertiary Care Institute (An Observational Study)

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