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University of Health Sciences, Ankara City Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine,.
Acta Biomed. 2022 May 11;93(2):e2022083. doi: 10.23750/abm.v93i2.10357.
While the term "completed suicide" refers to suicides that have resulted in death,"suicide attempts" refers to all attempts that do not result in death.Analyzing EMS cases is a reliable method of obtaining data on suicide attempts and completed suicides. We aimed to determine the relationship between the occurrence of cases on weekdays, weekends, public holidays or long holidays and case characteristics.
We evaluated EMS data of Ankara Province on completed suicide and suicide attempts including the date range 01.01.2017- 31.12.2019. We evaluated the data in terms of age, gender, mortality at the scene, and suicide method. In addition, we evaluated the data according to the hour, day, month, season, and year of the cases. We classified the suicide cases according to their occurrence on weekdays, weekends, public holidays or long holidays.
During the 3-year period included in the study, Ankara EMS assigned ambulances to a total of 940,546 cases. Of these cases, 8231 (0.875%) were suicide attempts and completed suicides. Suicide attempts were most frequent in males, in the 20-24 age group, in summer, in July, on Sundays, and between the hours 18:00 and 24:00. The most common method in suicide attempts was self-poisoning by drugs. Completed suicides were most frequent in males, in the 30-34 age group, in spring, in May, on Mondays and Tuesdays, and between the hours 18:00 and 24:00.
We evaluated different characteristics of suicide cases of EMS. In Turkey, there are few studies in the EMS field on this issue. Therefore, we believe that this study will contribute to the epidemiological evaluation of suicides. We hope that results of this study will help to prevent both suicides and suicide attempts.
虽然“自杀”一词是指已经导致死亡的自杀行为，但“自杀未遂”则是指所有未导致死亡的自杀尝试。分析急救医疗服务（EMS）案例是获取自杀未遂和自杀死亡数据的可靠方法。我们旨在确定工作日、周末、公共假日或长假期间案例发生的情况与案例特征之间的关系。
我们评估了包括 2017 年 1 月 1 日至 2019 年 12 月 31 日期间在内的安卡拉省关于自杀未遂和自杀的 EMS 数据。我们根据年龄、性别、现场死亡率和自杀方式对这些数据进行了评估。此外，我们还根据案例发生的时间、日期、月份、季节和年份对数据进行了评估。我们根据案例发生在工作日、周末、公共假日或长假的情况对自杀案例进行了分类。
在研究期间的 3 年中，安卡拉 EMS 共派遣救护车处理了 940546 例案例。其中，8231 例（0.875%）为自杀未遂和自杀死亡。自杀未遂在男性、20-24 岁年龄组、夏季、7 月、周日和 18:00 至 24:00 之间最常见，最常见的自杀未遂方法是药物自毒。自杀死亡在男性、30-34 岁年龄组、春季、5 月、周一和周二以及 18:00 至 24:00 之间最常见。
我们评估了 EMS 中不同自杀案例的特征。在土耳其，EMS 领域对此问题的研究较少。因此，我们认为这项研究将有助于对自杀进行流行病学评估。我们希望本研究的结果将有助于预防自杀和自杀未遂。
