Self-inflicted burns

García–Sánchez, Valle; Palao, R.; Legarre, F.

doi:10.1016/0305-4179(94)90016-7

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“…The mean age of 40.3 years in the suicidal group is similar to the age reported from other European countries [21][22][23][24][25][26][27] or the United States, 5,28,29 and much higher than that reported in other studies from Africa, 30,31 Australia, 32,33 and Asia. 10,34 -38 Only one study from Asia (Japan) reported higher mean age of self-immolation victims compared with our work.…”

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confidence: 86%

Suicide by Burning

Theodorou¹,

Phan²,

Weinand³

et al. 2011

Annals of Plastic Surgery

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Self-immolation constitutes a rare form of suicide in developed countries, though it accounts for unique injury characteristics in the burn intensive care unit. The aim of this study was to present the epidemiological and clinical features of patients burned during a suicidal attempt seen in a North Rhine-Westphalia burn intensive care unit (BICU). To address this aim, we undertook a 21-year retrospective study involving patients with thermal injuries admitted to the largest burn unit in Germany. A total of 125 suicide-related burn victims were identified in the study period (9.4%). Comparing the self-immolation group with the rest burn patient cohort, suicide victims were more likely to be single and to act under the influence of alcohol. The suicidal group had a larger extent of burns, higher incidence of inhalation injury, required more surgical procedures, catecholamines, blood transfusions, and a longer BICU stay. Their clinical course was complicated by prolonged intubation period, higher rate of multiple drug-resistant bacteria acquisition and sepsis, leading to a higher mortality rate. Although the proportion of self-immolation victims among all burned patients is not high, the markedly higher severity of their burns and their poorer quality of outcomes makes them an important clinical subgroup for further study.

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confidence: 86%

Suicide by Burning

Theodorou¹,

Phan²,

Weinand³

et al. 2011

Annals of Plastic Surgery

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“…All over the world it was observed that self inflicted burns injury incidence have different rates having a wide range of incidence and other authors report a significantly higher mortality rate than for accidental burns of comparable severity. Among the studies reviewed apart from Pham et al 26 , all other studies shows a range of mortality rates among the self inflicted injury cases, ranging from as low as 17.4% ( Plamu et al) 30 to as high as 29.8% (Garcia et al) 27 . The main argument is different studies surrounds the particular psychiatric diagnosis most likely to be associated with self inflicted burns.…”

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Mental illness as a contributor to intentional self inflicted suicidal burn injury

Shahana

Turin

Rumana

et al. 2012

J. Dhaka Natl. Med. Coll. Hosp.

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Self inflicted burn injuries are infrequent but very much distressing. It is a result of social, environmental and individual factors. Self-inflicted burns are usually an outcome of mental illness, and acute phase schizophrenia is considered as one of the major precipitating factor. The aim of this study was to find out and summarize the existing findings of different studies regarding mental illness as a contributor to suicide and/or intentional self inflicted injury. Literature review of some of previous studies from journals and databases were performed. Electronic database (Medline) was searched and twenty four studies were found to be related to the present objective. Among the 10 studies were randomly selected. The studies ranged from 1991-2005. The literature review suggested that quite a good number of incidents of self inflicted burns are committed by people having mental disorder. Among the self inflicted burns patient, the males were seen to be higher in number in most of the studies' provided information. The range of the age was 14 to 90 years collectively. And among them a significant number of people are suffering from schizophrenia. Depression, substance abuse, personality disorder, psychosis were among the other mental health illness contributing to the incidence of self inflicting burns injury. Specific attention should be given in this aspect as for the vulnerable group depends heavily on their care givers. Since a number of inter-related risk factors may be involved, solving the problem from a new perspective-the safety promotion perspective should be initiated.

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“…According to Lopez and Castromani et al the most prevalent causes of suicide attempts are mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and alcohol and opioids abuse disorders. In their study, Donald and Cameron maintained that 71% of the studied cases suffered from schizophrenia, depression, and personality disorder (26). García-Sánchez, Palao & Legarre reported that 63% of the studied cases suffered from one psychiatric disorder (3).…”

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Investigation of the Demographic Characteristics and Mental Health in Self-Immolation Attempters

Zamani

Bagheri

Nejad

2013

Int J High Risk Behav Addict

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BackgroundSelf immolation is a heinous way to commit suicide which is mostly prevalent in individuals who attempt to escape a stressful situation and is considered as a strange and unusual method.ObjectivesThis study examined demographic characteristics and mental health in self immolation attempters in the city of Bandar Abbas.Materials and MethodsTwo groups are involved in this enquiry. A group of 30 participants who have committed self-immolation and the other consisting of 15 non-committers. To conduct the study, MMPI questionnaire of Minnesota was employed accompanied with demographic information and descriptive statistics as well as independent “t-test”.ResultsThe research findings indicate that the self-immolation attempters were mostly among singles, females, low literates or illiterates, and housewives within the age group of 10-30 years old. According to the research there was a significant difference between two groups regarding personality characteristics and records of hypochondriasis, depression, psychopathic deviation, and hysteria. However no significant difference was observed between two groups regarding personality characteristics and paranoia, schizophrenia, psychasthrenia, and hypomania.ConclusionsSelf-immolation should be considered as an important mental health problem by the authorities. Moreover, the government should plan to make families more aware in order to prevent self-immolation and also help to recognize the risk factors in this area.

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Self-inflicted burns

Cited by 32 publications

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Suicide by Burning

Suicide by Burning

Mental illness as a contributor to intentional self inflicted suicidal burn injury

Investigation of the Demographic Characteristics and Mental Health in Self-Immolation Attempters

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