Evaluation of The Suıcıde Reasons and Anger Involved in Suıcıde Attempters Who Come to The Emergency Servıce

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 15 - 24, 23.04.2019

Zeynep Karaman Özlü , İbrahim Özlü Halime Gökşan

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to describe the reasons and the anger that drives
patients to attempt suicide

Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive study which was conducted with 217 patients
that stayed in the Toxicology Intensive Care Unit and had attempted suicide. The
data were collected during interviews conducted with the patients, using aquestionnaire
form, which included questions on patients' personal information, and the
Continuous Anger and Anger Expression Style Scale.

Results: All of the participating patients had taken medication or toxic
substances in their attempt to commit suicide. Among the reasons attributed to
the patients’ attempts to commit suicide, 30% were based on familial issues,
23% on loneliness and harassment and 16.1% due to mental illnesses. Prior
attempts at suicide had been committed by 20.3% of the patients, and 38.2% had
been previously diagnosed with a psychiatric illness. In terms of the
Continuous Anger and Anger and Expression Style score, the Continuous Anger sub-scale mean score was 27.34 (SD=6.33); the State Anger sub-scale mean score was
22.71 (SD=3.84); the Controlled Anger
sub-scale mean score was 16.76 (SS=4.98); the Expressed Anger sub-scale mean score was 19.92 (SD=5.69); and the Internalized Anger sub-scale mean score
was 18.71 (SD=3.98).

Conclusion: The study
found that medication and toxic substances were the main means by which the patients
attempted to commit suicide and that they were in their adolescent period and
had low educational levels. Furthermore, those who had made prior attempts at
suicide and/or who had been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness were included
in the risk group. Lastly, the patients who attempted to commit suicide had
high anger mean scores. 

   

Keywords

anger, suicide attempters, Emergency service, Reasons for suicide

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