TY - JOUR
T1 - The epidemiology of suicide behaviors among the countries of the eastern Mediterranean region of WHO
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Malakouti, Seyed Kazem
AU - Davoudi, Farnoush
AU - Khalid, Saeed
AU - Ahmadzad Asl, Masoud
AU - Khan, Murad Moosa
AU - Alirezaei, Narges
AU - Mirabzadeh, Arash
AU - DeLeo, Diego
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Tehran University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This systematic review aimed to help better to understand the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors among Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries. The PubMed, EMR medex, Scopus, PsychInfo, ISI, and IMEMR were searched with no language limitation for papers on the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors in the general population, published up to August 2013. A total of 13 articles were reviewed. The incidence (per 100.000) of committed suicide ranged from 0.55 to 5.4. The lifelong prevalence of attempted suicide, suicidal plan and thoughts were 0.72-4.2%, 6.2-6.7%, and 2.9-14.1%, respectively. The figures for suicide are higher than those officially reported. Suicide behaviors’ statistics is susceptible to underestimation presumably due to the socio-cultural, religious and legal barriers, not to mention the lack of well-organized registries and methodologically sound community-based surveys.
AB - This systematic review aimed to help better to understand the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors among Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries. The PubMed, EMR medex, Scopus, PsychInfo, ISI, and IMEMR were searched with no language limitation for papers on the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors in the general population, published up to August 2013. A total of 13 articles were reviewed. The incidence (per 100.000) of committed suicide ranged from 0.55 to 5.4. The lifelong prevalence of attempted suicide, suicidal plan and thoughts were 0.72-4.2%, 6.2-6.7%, and 2.9-14.1%, respectively. The figures for suicide are higher than those officially reported. Suicide behaviors’ statistics is susceptible to underestimation presumably due to the socio-cultural, religious and legal barriers, not to mention the lack of well-organized registries and methodologically sound community-based surveys.
KW - Eastern mediterranean region
KW - Prevalence
KW - Suicidal behaviors
KW - Systematic review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928239634&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26024698
AN - SCOPUS:84928239634
SN - 0044-6025
VL - 53
SP - 257
EP - 265
JO - Acta Medica Iranica
JF - Acta Medica Iranica
IS - 5
ER -
