SUICIDE ATTEMPTS BY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS

Forty three patients (42%) used agricultural chemicals as a method of suicide over nine and a half years (from Oct. 1981 to March 1991), and most cases were reported in June (agricultural activity) and December (year′s end). The highest prevalence was inpatients in their fifties (34.9%). 58.1% of th...

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Autores principales: Sato, Takeshi, Takeichi, Masashi, Hara, Tomihide
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743647
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description Forty three patients (42%) used agricultural chemicals as a method of suicide over nine and a half years (from Oct. 1981 to March 1991), and most cases were reported in June (agricultural activity) and December (year′s end). The highest prevalence was inpatients in their fifties (34.9%). 58.1% of these patients who committed suicide were farmers or had no fixed occupation. Main precipitating factor was difficulties in interpersonal relationships (30.9%), and the largest number of patients (25.6%) were diagnosed as having manic-depressive psychosis, depressed type.
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spelling pubmed-29806422011-07-08 SUICIDE ATTEMPTS BY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS Sato, Takeshi Takeichi, Masashi Hara, Tomihide Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Forty three patients (42%) used agricultural chemicals as a method of suicide over nine and a half years (from Oct. 1981 to March 1991), and most cases were reported in June (agricultural activity) and December (year′s end). The highest prevalence was inpatients in their fifties (34.9%). 58.1% of these patients who committed suicide were farmers or had no fixed occupation. Main precipitating factor was difficulties in interpersonal relationships (30.9%), and the largest number of patients (25.6%) were diagnosed as having manic-depressive psychosis, depressed type. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2980642/ /pubmed/21743647 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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SUICIDE ATTEMPTS BY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS
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title_full_unstemmed SUICIDE ATTEMPTS BY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS
title_short SUICIDE ATTEMPTS BY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743647
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