Arafat S M Yasir, Karim A K M Bazlul
Department of Psychiatry, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, 1340, Bangladesh.
Department of Neurosurgery, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, 1340, Bangladesh.
Heliyon. 2021 Nov 11;7(11):e08365. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08365. eCollection 2021 Nov.
There is an extreme dearth of empirical studies assessing the neuropsychiatric outcome of non-fatal hanging that indicates little attention to the area has been paid. We aimed to report the memory disturbances of 14 cases after an immediate non-fatal hanging attempt. We conducted the study from August 2020 to June 2021 and collected data from 14 hospitalized patients after an immediate non-fatal hanging attempt. We conducted series of clinical examinations to assess the memory disturbance and recorded it. Among the 14 cases, four (28.8%) were males and the rest ten (71.2%) were females. The mean age of the cases was 25.28 ± 8.19 years ranging from 15-40 years. All the cases had retrograde amnesia while six (42.9%) had both anterograde and retrograde amnesia. The current pilot study reported the distribution of memory disturbances among fourteen cases of non-fatal hanging that adds preliminary findings to the under-researched area and warrants further empirical studies to generalize the study results.
目前极度缺乏评估非致命性上吊神经精神后果的实证研究，这表明该领域很少受到关注。我们旨在报告14例非致命性上吊未遂后出现的记忆障碍情况。我们于2020年8月至2021年6月开展了这项研究，并收集了14例非致命性上吊未遂后住院患者的数据。我们进行了一系列临床检查以评估记忆障碍情况并进行记录。在这14例患者中，4例（28.8%）为男性，其余10例（71.2%）为女性。患者的平均年龄为25.28±8.19岁，年龄范围在15至40岁之间。所有患者均有逆行性遗忘，其中6例（42.9%）同时存在顺行性和逆行性遗忘。当前的这项初步研究报告了14例非致命性上吊患者记忆障碍的分布情况，为这个研究不足的领域增添了初步研究结果，并且需要进一步的实证研究来推广研究结果。
