Resource Tag: SRI LANKA

This article describes a qualitative study of student perspectives on suicidal behaviour & its prevention. Focus groups were held with students 17-20 years of age. A discussion of the perceived causes of suicidal behaviour provided the context for discussing prevention efforts. Participants identified pathways to suicidal behaviour & emphasized experiential aspects & the variability of […]

Patients who had self-poisoned with pesticides & who were admitted to adult medical wards were interviewed by study doctors to identify the source of the pesticides they ingested. Of the 669 patients included in the study, 425 were male. In 511 cases, the pesticides had been stored either inside or immediately outside the house; among […]

In this letter to the editor, the authors comment on an article by Miller (2006) in which a discrepancy between rates of suicide in China & rates of depression was described. Eddleston & Gunnell assert that by concentrating on fatal self-harm rather than all acts of self-harm, Miller missed an opportunity to understand the discrepancy. […]

Although the high rate of suicide in elderly people is conventionally explained as being due to greater intent to die, elderly Sri Lankans have died after relatively mild poisoning. The effect of age on outcome was examined in 1697 patients, controlling for gender & amount ingested. In fully adjusted models, people over 64-years-old were 13.8 […]

In this commentary, the author addresses an article by Gunnell et al (2007) on the impact of pesticide regulations on suicide in Sri Lanka. Patel welcomes the addition of this study to the research being accrued from developing countries. (9 refs.)

This study investigated small-area variation in self-poisoning incidence in Sri Lanka & its association with area-based socioeconomic & agricultural factors. The overall incidence of intentional self-poisoning in the study area in 2002 was 315 per 100,000. Socioeconomic disadvantage, as indexed by poor housing quality & low levels of education but not unemployment, was associated with […]

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This article reports on a door-to-door survey used to create a population-based twin register in Sri Lanka. The goal of this survey was to identify twins older than 18 years. A similar methodology was also used to identify a nontwin sample in order to determinate the degree to which twins were representative of the wider […]

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The epidemiology of intentional self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka was examined by prospectively recording 2189 admissions to 2 secondary hospitals. Many patients were young (median age 25 years), male (57%) & used pesticides. Of the 198 who died, 156 were males. Although the age pattern of self-poisoning was similar to that of industrialised countries, case […]

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

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The theme of this Conference was “Injuries, Suicide & Violence: Building Knowledge, Policies & Practices to Promote a Safer World”

This document assesses the impact of pesticide regulation on the number of deaths from poisoning in Sri Lanka. These regulations, implemented in the 1970s, aimed to reduce the number of deaths – mainly from self-poisoning – by limiting the availability & use of highly toxic pesticides. It is found that the total national number of […]

This paper seeks answers to the questions: Do males & females in Sri Lanka share similar internal migration patterns? & What characteristic commonalities & differences can be identified in male & female migration? Suicide rates are examined as a possible response to separation caused by migration patterns. High suicide rates were found in both males […]

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