Abstract

AYALA ESPINOSA, G.; MARTI LLORET, JB.  and  RODES LLORET, F.. Consummated suicide rate in the judicial district of San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante). Cuad. med. forense [online]. 2005, n.40, pp.119-129. ISSN 1988-611X.

OBJECTIVES: 1.- To determine the number of consummated suicides in San Vicente del Raspeig between 1990 and 2001. 2.- To describe the characteristics, circumstances and associated risk factors. METHODOLOGY: It is an investigation of a temporary series made of a sample of ten annual studies between 1990-2001. We used as a source the previous investigations found in the archives of the courts of San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante). The variables to consider are: gender, age, marital status, mechanism, place of suicide, county where it took place, year of suicide, number of attempts previousl and notes left. We used the test as "chi-cuadrado" and a previous determined significance level (p<0.05). RESULTS: The number of suicides is 92. More men (63) than women (29) commit suicide with a proportion of 2.17:1. In all ages we found men that committed suicide. We did not find any women that committed suicide under the age of 30. Men between 50-59 and 70-79 and women around 60 are in the highest rate (p=0.040). Married people commit suicide more than single people with 39 cases, of which 28 are men (56%) and 11 women (45.83%). Men prefer hanging (44.44%) and women jumping (51.72%) (p=0.043). Men prefer to commit suicide at home (46.03%) and women on a public place (34.48%) (p=0.006). Men Prefer to do it in El Campello (31.75%) and San Vicente (25.40%) and women in El Campello (27.59%) and San Juan (24.14%). Women try more times (92.31%) than men (50%) (p=0.010). Men leave more suicide notes (26.98%) than women (6.90%) (p=0.027). CONCLUSIONS: Men between 50 and 70 years have the highest risk of fatal suicide. They prefer to do it at home and with more complicated mechanisms and they always leave a suicide note. Women try to commit more suicides, not under 30 years old and whey they want to be successful they do it on a public place. We found that the older they get the possibilities are higher.

Keywords : Consummated suicide; rate; risk factors.

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