SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN

Suicide in Pakistan

Abstract

Fashion of suicide alters broadly according to time, district, age assembly, sex, and race. Despite blended tendencies of rises or declines in suicide rates round the world, suicide continues a significant public-health problem. In an effort to realise and avert suicide, investigators have enquired health, psychosocial, heritage, and socio-economic risk components affiliated with the natural environment as an undertaking line of research. There is now substantial clues that childhood and family adversities in general for example childhood sexy and personal misuse, seeing household aggression, parental parting or end wedding ceremony and dwelling with matter mishandling, brain sick or lawless individual family constituents may be both powerfully interrelated and individually associated to suicidal demeanour in adolescents and adults. The approach in the direction of avoidance of suicide has to be multidisciplinary in Pakistani culture. To identify that harmful childhood knowledge that often take location as multiple events, recognising and healing those juvenile persons who have been revealed to such knowledge, encouraging expanded perception amidst parents, educators, and wellbeing professionals of the significant function that critical interpersonal adversities and dysfunctional cognitions can play in the development of suicidal demeanour in juvenile persons, and assisting parents change their maladaptive child-rearing demeanour could help.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 15

Introduction5

Aim of the Study9

Research Question9

CHAPTER 210

Literature Review10

CHAPTER 336

Methodology36

CHAPTER 438

Results38

CHAPTER 555

Conclusion55

REFERENCES57

BIBLIOGRAPHY59

Chapter 1

Introduction

Suicide is a recognised major public-health problem, worldwide (Khan & Reza, 2000). It is related to a number of risk factors like psychiatric disorders and psychological, social and biological factors. Death as a result of self-inflicted injuries has been reported to account for 1.5% of total deaths among all sexes, and ranked within the leading two causes of death among 15-34-year-old people in a selection of European countries and China, and is the 10th leading cause of death worldwide. A recent study from Pakistan estimated that 1.6% of all deaths in Pakistan are due to suicide. However, among the seven countries with population over 100 million, from which data are available, the age-standardized suicide rates over specific time periods, have been reported to vary widely. Given the public health impact of this problem, it becomes essential to gather information on mortality from suicide in various countries.

With reference to trends in rates, in the 1970s and 1980s, suicide rates moved upwards in elderly men from North America and in younger men in Japan and several European countries, but were generally more stable for women. Furthermore, there were substantial (over 10-fold) differences in rates, between the highest ones from Hungary, Finland, Denmark, the former Soviet Union and Sri Lanka, and the lowest ones in South America or southern Europe. Overall age-adjusted (on the world standard population) male mortality rates from suicide in Hungary or Sri Lanka were of the order of 50/100,000, i.e. higher than cardiovascular mortality rates in Japan or France. However, the aggregate figures are said to hide variations that have occurred among sexes, age groups and regions. In order to assess the actual magnitude of the problem and to plan effective steps to counter ...