Investigation of Demographic Variables and Types of Suspension in Suicidal Hanging.

Introduction: Suicide is considered as an intentional self-killing which happened because of complex factors, its rates are various from country to country. Typically, the suicide rate for men are more than women. Selecting an effective way for suicide could influence by complex elements including social, environmental, psychological and physical factors. Materials and Methods: Present cross-sectional study done at Hafte-Tir Medical Center from March 1995 to 2015 on 99 cases of attempted suicide by hanging. Among them, 85 (85.8%) were male and 14 (14.2%) were female. Variables such as age, gender, education, mortality rate, types of suspension, and previous history of suicide attempt were evaluated for these people. Results: Majority of suicides by hanging were done by men, which mainly occurs in the third or fourth decades of their lives. Complete suspension considered as a predictive operation of death. Among the studied variables, types of hanging represented a remarkable statistical difference for prognosis (p-value, 0.0001) and survival rate. Conclusions: Our results showed that the percentage of death, as a result of hanging, is higher among men rather than women which might be because of the highest number of men committed to suicide. However, we did not observe significant correlation between mortality of hanging and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]