Razaeian Mohsen, Sharifirad Gholamreza
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2012;1:44. doi: 10.4103/2277-9531.104814. Epub 2012 Dec 19.
There are few diverse studies that have reported the case fatality rates of different methods of suicide, none of them are originated from developing countries. The aim of the present article is to report the case fatality rates of different methods of suicide in Ilam province of Iran.
Data on 611 cases of suicide and 1807 cases of deliberate self harm (DSH) that were recorded in a comprehensive registry during 1995 through 2002 were analyzed for both genders together and for males and females, separately.
For both genders together, the two most fatal methods were hanging (75.4%) and self-immolation (68.3%); for males, hanging (76.3%) and self-immolation (64.7%); and for females, firearms (75%) and hanging (73.7%), respectively. The least fatal methods for both genders together and for females and males separately were drug ingestion and cutting.
The results of present study, which for the first time has reported the case fatality rates of suicide methods in a developing world, would not only help to better plan the local suicide prevention strategies and clinical assessment of suicidal cases but to shed light on overall understanding of this mysterious human phenomenon.
很少有多样化的研究报告不同自杀方式的病死率，且均非来自发展中国家。本文旨在报告伊朗伊拉姆省不同自杀方式的病死率。
分析了1995年至2002年期间在一个综合登记处记录的611例自杀病例和1807例蓄意自伤（DSH）病例的数据，包括男女总体情况以及男女各自的情况。
男女总体而言，最致命的两种方式是上吊（75.4%）和自焚（68.3%）；男性为上吊（76.3%）和自焚（64.7%）；女性分别为火器（75%）和上吊（73.7%）。男女总体以及男女各自而言，最不致命的方式是服药和割伤。
本研究首次报告了发展中国家自杀方式的病死率，其结果不仅有助于更好地规划当地的自杀预防策略和对自杀病例进行临床评估，还能增进对这一神秘人类现象的全面理解。
