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Objective To explore the relationship between mental health status and intentional self harm and parenting style among adolescent students.Methods Using Parenting Style Questionnaire (PBI),Chinese middle school student mental health scale questionnaire and deliberate self harm questionnaire,6 middle schools in Quzhou City were randomly selected and a total of 876 students were investigated.Results A total of 869 questionnaires were recovered and the recovery rate was 99.20％.Totally 42.58％ of the adolescents had psychological problems,and 8.40％ and 7.36％ of the students feel bad themselves.Those who had thought or deliberately hurt themselves accounted for 15.54％ and 5.64％,respectively.The parenting style of father was mainly high care and low control(50.50％),while that of mother was mainly high control and low care(74.00％).Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the mental health status was self reported poor among those their father parenting style was high control and low care (OR =3.291,95％ CI:1.724-6.285) and the possibility of intentional self harm behaviors were higher (OR =2.278,95％ CI:1.042-4.983) when the confounding factors were controlled.Conclusion The proportion of middle school students who have psychological problems were high and high control and low care of father parenting style were the risk factors of psychological problems and intentional self harm behaviors among adolescents.
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In today’s scenario high occupational mobility, high ambition and desire for high standard of living is leading to high incidence of suicidal deaths. Nowadays suicidal gesture, attempted suicide & well successful suicide cases are seen in the society often on. A prospective cum retrospective study is carried out in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur w.e.f. 2004- 2008. In this period out of total 627 autopsies performed, 223 were found as suicidal deaths. In these 223 cases , 88 cases ended their life by poisoning, rest of them in the decreasing order are as follows – Train Run-over (55), Hanging (43), Drowning (20), Alcohol (9), Burn (4), Celphos Poisoning (3), Insecticides Poisoning (1). This clearly indicates that availability of highly lethal suicidal method and rate of suicide are interrelated. During the study we have found three new innovative methods of committing suicide. All three victims were pursuing their professional qualification and will be discussed in this study.