An Analysis of the Patients Admitted to the Emergency Service of the ‹skenderun General Hospital Due to Suicidal Attempts

Volume: 16 Number: 3 September 1, 2008
  • A. Polat
  • C. Balıkçı
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An Analysis of the Patients Admitted to the Emergency Service of the ‹skenderun General Hospital Due to Suicidal Attempts

Abstract

Objective: Psychosocial Support andCrisis Intervention departments have been setup all over Turkey by the Turkish Ministry of Health within the emergency services of generalhospitals and such a unit was also organized tooperate beginning from April 2007 in Iskenderun, Hatay. The main objective of this research was to get the statistics of the patient’ssociodemographic levels, their reasons for suicidal attempts, whether there had been a previousattempt of the patient and evaluation of theirpsychiatric conditions ,within a period of 9 (nine)months, Methods: Statistics have been carriedout based on the patients' registry data cat whoadmitted to the emergency service of the hospital between April 1 st- December 31 st, 2007.Findings: The statistics show that most of thepatients; were females 80%; in the 15-24 agegroup (63%); unmarried 56%; primary schoolgraduates 57% and rate of unemployed was36%. Suicidal attempts showed an increasednumber in July 19%. It was observed that in suicidal attempts most individuals used medicineor toxic chemicals 97,64% and 18% of them hadpreviously tried to commit suicide. It was clearthat these suicidal attempts were basicallycaused by inter family relations 33,6%; problems with opposite sex 14,8 % or psychiatricproblems14,4%. Results: All patients whoattempted suicide should be directed to theCrisis İntervention Department after their evaluation in emergency room completed and theirtreatment needs to be commenced immediately

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Turkish

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Authors

A. Polat This is me

C. Balıkçı This is me

Publication Date

September 1, 2008

Submission Date

September 1, 2008

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Published in Issue

Year 2008 Volume: 16 Number: 3

APA
Polat, A., & Balıkçı, C. (2008). İntihar girişimi nedeniyle İskenderun Devlet Hastanesi Acil Servise gelen ve Krize Müdahale Birimine yönlendirilen olguların değerlendirilmesi. Kriz Dergisi, 16(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1501/Kriz_0000000281