Resource Tag: NEPAL

Introduction: Sleep is a fundamental human requirement, considered one of the major contributing factors to physical and mental health, especially among adolescents. Poor quality sleep has many potential consequences including non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), suicidal thoughts or behaviour and complete suicide. The NSSI and suicidal behaviour are increasing in Nepal. Thus, this study aimed to assess the […]

Background: Suicide is a global, preventable public health issue, with nearly more than 700,000 people dying by suicide annually. The majority of suicides occur in developing countries, including Nepal. This study is aimed at examining the trends and patterns of suicide in Nepal over the past 5 years in the federal context. Methods: Using the Nepal Police […]

Background: There is a lack of research on the adolescent experience of depression in low- and middle-income countries. Criteria derived from research conducted primarily among adult Western populations inform  current diagnostic standards for depression. These clinical categories are often used without exploration of their relevance to adolescent experience. Also, reliance on these categories may overlook […]

Introduction: Suicide is a major public health concern globally as well as in Nepal. It is important to have baseline data regarding suicide attempts to develop a prevention strategy. This study aims to describe the methodology used to develop a suicide registry and use it to collect data from patient visiting emergency or psychiatric outpatient department […]

Background Assessment of the depiction of suicidal behavior in motion pictures would reveal the social representation of suicide that would foster suicide prevention in a country. Objectives We aimed to assess how suicidality has been depicted in Nepali movies by scrutinizing their contents against the sociodemographic checklist and WHO media guidelines for suicidal reporting. Methods […]

The article explores on the theoretical and empirical evidences of growing suicide trend in Nepal from psychological perspective. Nepal has been witnessing the increasing suicidal attempts since the last two decades. The paper is developed based on the secondary sources of data. The published research papers, government information, suicide recorded information of police headquarter, governmental […]

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There appear to be a number of differences in the aetiology, presentation, & treatment options for mental health problems between high-resource & low-resource countries. This review compares suicide & suicide prevention in a high-resource country, Australia, & a low-resource country, Nepal. (25 refs.)

This study examined all deaths of Nepalese women of reproductive age, April 2008-April 2009. Verbal autopsies were carried out to determine the cause of death & contributory factors. During the study period, suicide was the leading cause of death (16 percent), a steep increase from 1998 when suicide was ranked third. Analysis of verbal autopsy […]

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This letter briefly reports on disturbing trends in the suicide rate in Nepal. In 2000-2001 there were 2000 cases of suicide in Nepal. This figure increased to 3033 in 2001-2002. A 2001 census found that the suicide rate was almost 3 times higher in the male (190) than female (68) population below 14 years of […]