• D. KANNAIYAN
• DR. D.SAI BALASUBRAMANIAN
• DR. M CHANDRA SEKAR

INTRODUCTION: Suicide is defined as “death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with intent to die as a result of the behavior”. A suicide attempt is “a non-failed, self-directed, potentially injurious behavior with intent to die as a result of the behavior. A suicide attempt might not result in injury”. Suicidal ideation refers to “thinking about, considering, or planning suicide NIMH. It is a global public health issue in the world. Deliberate self-harm is a major health issue over all the world. It includes the biological factor, socio-culture, and personality traits that may modify the individual behavior. AIM OF THE STUDY: This study implies that suicide attempter most of the patients had stressful life events in the family which affect the family functioning and may cause for attempt suicide. MATERIALS & METHODS: This study was descriptive and cross-sectional. A purposive sampling procedure was used for the study. This method need not be used when there are multipurpose objectives involved in the study. The study population is the attempted suicide patient initially who give informed consent and from the in-patient and out-patient departments and new case from suicide prevention clinic department of psychiatry in SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Potheri. The sample size was 98. Inclusion of this study age group was 18 years and above and both male and female patients. Patients referred to suicide prevention clinic, department of psychiatry, OPD with history of suicidal attempt. Exclusion of this study age group less than 18 years of age and patients who do not give informed consent. then those who have a cognitive deficit. RESULTS: Female and majority of the 31 (49.21%) respondents were between the age group of 18 – 27years. The majority of the 22 (34.90%) respondents were studied up to 8th standard to 10th standard and occupation status shows that majority of the 25 (39.68%) respondents were housewives. majority of the 24 (38.10%) respondents’ families were having 11000 -20000 Rs income per month. Then the majority of the 24 (38.10%) respondents were hailing from rural backgrounds. The majority of the 41 (65.08%) respondents were belonging to a middle-class background. It was found that the duration of suicidal ideas was found to be impulsive in almost 80.95% of attempters in our study. Whereas the remaining 10 % of attempters have suicidal ideas before the attempt. In this, attempters who has ideas 1-4 weeks before the attempt were 12.70%, between 1-6 months were 4.76% and more than 7 months was 1.59%. mode of attempt suicide most commonly used were tablet poisoning (26.98%, 17 cases), following that rat killer poisoning (17.46%, 11 cases), oleander seed poisoning (14.29%, 9 cases), OPC poisoning (12.70%, 8 cases), pesticide as killer poisoning (11.11%, 7 cases), other modes (11.11%, 7 cases), Partial hanging (3.17%, 2 cases), cutting (3.17%, 2 cases). Descriptive analysis of (PSlES) scale shows that majority of the Mean ± SD (112.87 ± 62.92), 95% confidence interval (97.03, 128.72) respondents were has family and social related stress, followed by Mean ± SD (26.62 ± 46.11), 95% confidence interval (15.0, 38.23) of the respondents had work-related stress, Mean ± SD (40.06 ± 38.64), 95% confidence interval (30.33, 49.80) of the respondents were has financial stress, Mean ± SD (37.87 ± 57.28), 95% confidence interval ( 23.45, 52.30) of the respondents were has Marital And Sex-related stress, Mean ± SD (52.75 ± 27.74), 95% confidence interval (45.76, 59.73) of the respondents had Health-related stress. CONCLUSION: This study implies that suicide attempter most of the patients had stressful life events in the family which affect the family functioning and may cause for attempt suicide. Hence present study will use more and more in planning awareness in the community and it will be helpful in the prevention and planning of effective psychosocial intervention. It will help to the prevention of attempting suicide.

suicide attempter, financial stress, health stress, lack of interest in living

"A STUDY ON FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND LIFE EVENTS AMONG SUICIDE ATTEMPTERS ATTENDING TERTIARY CARE SETTING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no.d784-d795, April-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204392.pdf

"A STUDY ON FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND LIFE EVENTS AMONG SUICIDE ATTEMPTERS ATTENDING TERTIARY CARE SETTING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no. ppd784-d795, April-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204392.pdf