Suicide Behavior among People in Srinakhon District, Sukhothai Province

Abstract

This retrospective descriptive study aimed to study the suicide behavior of people in Srinakhon District, Sukhothai Province. Data were collected from the medical record of 90 people with suicidal behavior and analyzed the data using descriptive statistics. The results of the study showed that 1) the majority of suicide group was male 82.1%, age 51-60 years old 39.3%, marital status 60.7%, agricultural occupation 39.3%, physical disease patients with hypertension 50.0%, psychiatric illness with depression 21.4%, domicile in Klong Maphlap district 46.4%, time of suicide event in the period 12.01 to 18.00 hours 39.9%, problems or events provoked by an altercation with someone close 32.1%, and using a neck-tie self-harm method 57.1%, and  2) the majority of the attempted suicide groups were female 54.8%, age ≤ 20 years old 30.6%, marital status 48.4%, agricultural occupation 33.9%, physical disease patients with hypertension 9.7%, psychiatric illness with alcoholism 21.0%, domicile in Klong Maphlap district 29.0%, time of the suicidal attempted event in the period 18.01 to 24.00 hours 35.5%, problems or events provoked by an altercation with someone close 41.9%, and using an overdose of self-harm 32.3%.