creators_name: Baby, Sanjush creators_name: P, Manju creators_name: KF, Yesudas type: journale datestamp: 2006-09-01 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:34 metadata_visibility: show title: Psychiatric diagnosis in attempted suicide ispublished: pub subjects: calcut full_text_status: public keywords: attempted suicide, adjustment disorder, organophosphorous compounds, depressive disorder, and sociodemography abstract: This is a retrospective study which assesses the various socio-demographic correlates, the methods adopted to commit suicide and the psychiatric disorders in patients attempting suicide. The most common psychiatric diagnosis was found to be Adjustment disorder followed by Depressive disorder. Organo-phosphorous compounds were the most frequent agent used among suicide attempt patients. date: 2006 date_type: published publication: Calicut Medical Journal volume: 4 number: 3 publisher: Calicut Medical College Alumni Association refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1) WHO. The World Health Report 1999 2) Venkoba Rao.A, Kuruvilla.K, Psychiatry; B.I.Churchill Livingstone, New Delhi, 1998, 160- 167 3) WHO The World Health Report 1995- Bridging the gaps. World Health Organisation, Geneva; 17, 1995. 4) Moscicki, The Psychiatric Clinics of North America; Suicide, W.B.Saunders Company 504- 513 5) Dunner (1997), Current Psychiatric Therapy, W.B. Saunders company, 1997, Pg-548 6) Government of Kerala 2004 suicides, Kerala Crime Records Bureau, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum. 7) Galgali.R.B, Sanjeev Rao, Ashok.M.V, Appaya.P and Srinivasan.K, (1998) Psychiatric Diagnosis of Self Poisoning Cases a General Hospital Study. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 40(3) 254-259 8) Kandamuthan.M (1998) Preliminary findings on the Psychosocial factors for attempt of suicide in Kerala. NIMHANS Journal 261-270 9) Gupta.S.C, Harjeet Singh (1981) Psychiatric illness in Suicide Attempters. Indian J.Psychiatry 23(1) 69-74. 10) Narang.R.L., Mishra.B.P and Nithesh Mohan (2000) Attempted Suicide in Ludhiana, Indian J. Psychiatry 2000, 42(1) 83-87 11) Venkoba Rao.A.(1971) Suicide Attempters in Madurai) Journal of Indian Medical Association 57, 278 12) WHO Suicide and the Young, WHO Chron 1979; 29; 193-8 13) John Geddes (1999), Suicide and Homicide by people with Mental illness, BMJ Vol-15. No-6 Nov 1999 Pg407 14) Abhaya Indrayan, M.J.Wysocki, Rajeev Kumar, Anil Chawla, Nihal Singh (2002), Estimates of the Years of Life lost due to the top nine causes of death in rural areas of major states in India in 1995, Nat Med J. of India Vol-15, No-1 Jan/Feb 2002 15) Maris.R.W, Suicide, Lancet 2003;306;pg319-26 16) Michael Eddleston, Rezvi Sheriff.M.H, Keith Hawton, Deliberate Self Harm in Srilanka: an overlooked tragedy in the developing world. British Medical Journal 1998; No:7151, Pg133- 135 17) World Health Organisation Ad Hoc cCommittee on Health Research relating to future intervention options, investing in health research and development, Geneva: WHO 1996 (document TDR/Gen/96.1) 18) ICD-10 Classification of mental & behavioral disorders, Diagnostic criteria for Research, WHO, Geneva 19) Andrew T A Cheng, Tony H H chen, Chwen- Chen Chen &M Rachel Jenkins (2000) Psychosocial and psychiatric risk factors for suicide;Case control psychological autopsy study British Medical Journal(2000) 177,360-365 20) Andrew A. Nierenberg, Stephen M. Gray, &Lousisa D Grandin Mood disorders and suicide Journal of clinical Psychiatry 2001;62 (suppl 25) 21) Benjamin James Sadock & Virginia Alcott Sadock, Synopsis of Psychiatry, Ninth edition Pg 919 22) Wun Jung Kim, Tanvir Singh, The Lancet 2004, 363, 1090-1091. ACKNOWLEGEMENTS 1) Dr. Shajee P.P & Dr. Padmini for8¦ citation: Baby, Sanjush and P, Manju and KF, Yesudas (2006) Psychiatric diagnosis in attempted suicide. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/5090/1/e2.pdf