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Objectives: The first aim of this study is to determine the frequency of attempted suicide in psychiatric inpatients and, the second aim is to examine the relationship between suicidal behavior and clinical features and sociodemographic variables.
Methods: Two thousand psychiatric inpatients treated between January 2011 and March 2013 at Erenkoy Research and Training Hospital for Mental and Neurological Disorders were searched and among them 277 inpatients (13.8 %) with a suicide attempt in their personal history were evaluated retrospectively from the point of view of sociodemographic and clinical aspects related to suicide by examining their medical files. The data obtained from the study were analysed with SPSS 15th version.
Results: According to the findings of this study, the mean age of the patients was 33.26± 12.71 years (minimum 15 and maximum 70). Of the patient sample, 67.1% were female and 32.9 % were male (Female/Male~ 2). 54.5 % of all patients were single. The suicidal behavior has been seen more often in unemployed patients (57.8%), patients who have difficulty with impulse control (95.9%) and depression was the most common diagnosis (49.5%) after the suicide attempt. There was a statistically significant relation between the sex and the frequency of suicide attempt (X2=32.5, P=0.00). The most common method of attempted suicide was oral intake of oral dosage forms (62.5%), and that was followed by drinking rodenticide (12.6%), wrist cutting (10.5), jumping from height (7.6%), hanging (5.8%) and inhalation of toxic gas (1.1%) in descending order.
Conclusions: According to the results obtained from this study, psychiatric patients, who attempted suicide in general, consistent with the literature in terms of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics. In our study, depression as the first placeholder among all diagnoses after suicide attempts supports the idea of its being the most important risk factor.