Resource Tag: NEPAL

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 […]