ABSTRACT
This study pertains to eighty six suicide attempters. The findings indicated that in both sexes the peak age group was 15 - 20 years, followed by 21 - 25 years. Organophosphorous compounds were found to have been used by a large number of attempters. 23.25% of our sample had contemplated on this act even prior to this episode. Alcohol was found to be an important factor behind 10.46% of cases. The scores on Eysenck Personality Questionnaire indicated that extraversion was predominantly found in our cases of attempted suicides whereas most of them scored very low on P scale.
ABSTRACT
Eighty seven cases of suicides were investigated in the present study. Of the 87 cases 44.% were males and 56.2% were females. 7%of the females were below 30 years and most of them were married. The chosen choice for the fatal self destruction in both sexes was hanging and the selected fateful hour in a considerable proportion of cases was between 6.00 P.M. and 12.00 midnight Some of the notable causes are discussed.
