Alem A, Jacobsson L, Kebede D, Kullgren G
Amanuel Psychiatric Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Acta Psychiatr Scand Suppl. 1999;397:65-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1999.tb10696.x.
One hundred key informants were interviewed regarding their awareness and attitudes toward suicidal behaviour. Eighty-eight informants were male, 58 were Muslim and 42 were Christian. Informants on average, claimed to know more persons who had completed suicide than those who had attempted suicide. Almost all informants mentioned more than one cause for suicide. Of these, frustration was the most frequently mentioned cause. Most informants believed that suicide attempters are cruel, feared and not trustworthy. Their attitude toward suicide completers was expressed as condemned sinners, do not deserve funeral ceremony, and should be buried separately from others. Christians gave importance to the funeral issue more than did the Muslims. Generally, the attitudes of informants were punitive and disapproving.
就他们对自杀行为的认知和态度，对100名关键信息提供者进行了访谈。88名信息提供者为男性，58名是穆斯林，42名是基督教徒。信息提供者平均声称，他们认识的自杀身亡者比自杀未遂者更多。几乎所有信息提供者都提到了不止一个自杀原因。其中，挫折是最常被提及的原因。大多数信息提供者认为，自杀未遂者残忍、令人恐惧且不可信赖。他们对自杀身亡者的态度是，谴责这些罪人，认为他们不应享有葬礼仪式，应该与其他人分开埋葬。基督教徒比穆斯林更重视葬礼问题。总体而言，信息提供者的态度是惩罚性的且不赞同的。
