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To determine the global profile of pupils and university students who made suicide attempts. We have retrospectively examined 1623 files of pupils and university students who have consulted the psycho-pedagogical unit of psychiatry department " B " of Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax -Tunisia, during this time span from January 1997 to December 2009. We have taken a census 61 of files of those consulting for suicide attempts. The prevalence of suicide attempts in Tunisian pupils and university students is low [3.75%] and is probably due to sociocultural considerations. It is often a young girl [70.5%] having school difficulties [50.8%] and adaptation problems [60.6%], impulsively accomplishing her suicide attempt [91.8%], at home [83.6%], by drug ingestion [70.6%]. This profile shows the major need for communication within the family, and for the generalization of listening units at schools and universities
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Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder in chronic hemodialysis patients and is associated with mortality. To evaluate the prevalence of the depression in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis, and to identify the correlated factors. The study population included 106 patients on chronic hemodialysis. The Hospital-Anxiety and Depression Scale was used to diagnosis depression. The prevalence of the depression among the patients surveyed was 46.2%. Among 8 factors correlated with the depression at the univariate analysis, only 2 factors were still strongly correlated at the multivariate analysis: professional inactivity [OR = 6.54; p = 0.01] and anxiety [OR = 1 ., 5; p = 0.00]. According to our study, professional inactivity and/or anxiety should make looking for depression in order to optimize the management of the patients on chronic hemodialysis