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General Health Status in a Cohort of Iranian Patients With Intentional Self-Poisoning: A Preventive Approach



Eizadimood N1 ; Akuchekian S1 ; Sabzghabaee AM2 ; Farzad G1 ; Hessami N3
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  1. 1. Department of Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, IsfahanClinical Toxicology Research Center, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, Isfahan University of MedicalSciences, Isfahan, Iran

Source: International Journal of Preventive Medicine Published:2012

Abstract

Background: Prevention of suicide is one of the most important issues of community medicine in the world. Because of high accessibility of people to different drugs in our society, one of the easiest ways of suicide is intentional self-poisoning. In this study, demographic factors and health status of the patients with intentional self-poisoning were evaluated. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the poisoning referral center on 384patients aged 15-40years who committed intentional self-poisoning. Information was gathered using two questionnaires about demographic characteristics and the general health status of the patients. Results: 70.5% of the patients had easy accessibility to drugs. Most of the patients were women (62.5%) and single (51%). History of psychological disease was demonstrated in 82.5% of patients. In terms of general health status, the most common problems were social dysfunction (97.57%) and depression (88.9%). Conclusion: Easy accessibility to drugs and psychological problems may increase the risk of intentional self-poisoning. Being religious and the consequent hopefulness may have a positive protecting effect for the prevention of intentional self-poisoning.
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