Risk Factors Associated with Suicide :A Case - Control Study in Sukhothai Province
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Objective : To identify the psychosocial risk factors associated with committed suicide in Sukhothai province.
Method : A case–control study was conducted among 110 cases with committed suicide and 220 controls with attempted suicide during 2007-2011. Committed suicide cases were assessed psychological autopsy by semi-structure interviewing, primary care officers and
psychiatric nurses, while attempted suicide controls were assessed by individual semi-structure interview. Data analys is used descriptive statistics, chi-squared test, odds ratio (OR) and logistic regression.
Results : The risk factors associated with suicide were male with OR=2.36 (male : female=69.09:vs. 30.91%), having medical and psychiatric illnesses such as having medical and psychiatric
illnesses such as cardiovascular disease (OR=4.30, p < 0.01), malignancy (OR=3.57, p<0.05), chronic liver disease (OR = 3.18, p<0.05), chronic renal failure (OR = 3.06, p<0.05), disabilities (OR=2.01, p<0.05) chronic headache (OR=2.02, p<0.05), chronic arthritis/low back pain (OR=2.16, p<0.05), alcohol use disorders (OR = 4.40, p<0.01), depression (OR=2.36, p<0.05) and substance use disorder (OR=1.51, p<0.05), having economic problems such as loss of property/disaster/gambling (OR =10.43, p<0.05), losing in business/bankrupt (OR =2.01, p<0.05), income problem (OR =1.76, p<0.05). For relationship problems the contributing factors for committed suicide were demanding/seeking attention (OR =2.05, p<0.05), love and affair problems (OR = 1.83, p<0.05).
Conclusion : male and having illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, malignancy, arthritis and low back pain, depression, alcohol used disorder, having stressful life events such as love and affair problems, loss of property/disaster/gambling were psychosocial risk factors for committed suicide.
Objective : To identify the psychosocial risk factors associated with committed suicide in Sukhothai province.
Method : A case–control study was conducted among 110 cases with committed suicide and 220 controls with attempted suicide during 2007-2011. Committed suicide cases were assessed psychological autopsy by semi-structure interviewing, primary care officers and
psychiatric nurses, while attempted suicide controls were assessed by individual semi-structure interview. Data analys is used descriptive statistics, chi-squared test, odds ratio (OR) and logistic regression.
Results : The risk factors associated with suicide were male with OR=2.36 (male : female=69.09:vs. 30.91%), having medical and psychiatric illnesses such as having medical and psychiatric
illnesses such as cardiovascular disease (OR=4.30, p < 0.01), malignancy (OR=3.57, p<0.05), chronic liver disease (OR = 3.18, p<0.05), chronic renal failure (OR = 3.06, p<0.05), disabilities (OR=2.01, p<0.05) chronic headache (OR=2.02, p<0.05), chronic arthritis/low back pain (OR=2.16, p<0.05), alcohol use disorders (OR = 4.40, p<0.01), depression (OR=2.36, p<0.05) and substance use disorder (OR=1.51, p<0.05), having economic problems such as loss of property/disaster/gambling (OR =10.43, p<0.05), losing in business/bankrupt (OR =2.01, p<0.05), income problem (OR =1.76, p<0.05). For relationship problems the contributing factors for committed suicide were demanding/seeking attention (OR =2.05, p<0.05), love and affair problems (OR = 1.83, p<0.05).
Conclusion : male and having illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, malignancy, arthritis and low back pain, depression, alcohol used disorder, having stressful life events such as love and affair problems, loss of property/disaster/gambling were psychosocial risk factors for committed suicide.
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Khamma, A. (2013). Risk Factors Associated with Suicide :A Case - Control Study in Sukhothai Province. Journal of the Psychiatric Association of Thailand, 58(1), 3–16. Retrieved from https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JPAT/article/view/8239
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