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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Abstract Introduction: The higher prevalence of suicidal attempts among women has been reported in a vast amount of scientific literatures; but contradictory findings have been reported about the different rates of such attempts in different menstural phases. Some studies have shown that suicidal attempts in women are more frequent in specific menstrual phases compared to other phases and to general population. Some other studies, however, have failed to duplicate such results. Regarding these controversies, this study was aimed to evaluate the existence of is any relationship between the suicidal attempts and different phases of menstrual cycle. Material and methods: This was a descriptive study carried out on 298 suicide-attempted females referred to Isfahan Noor and Ali Asghar poisoning emergency center in 2005. They were selected through convenient sampling and were administered questionnaires to assess the menstrual phase at the time of suicidal attempt. Data was analyzed by SPSS 10 software using χ 2 test. Results: Most of the suicide-attempted women were in the luteal phase. There was a significant difference between the frequency of this phase and the other phases at the time of attempt (p Conclusion: Suicidal attempts in females may be more frequent during luteal phase. For preventing suicide, more supportive and evaluative methods should be considered during this high-risk phase.

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Aim and Background: Suicide is one of the social and psychological problems. Hamadan province is one of the three provinces with high rate of suicide in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of attempting suicide and the major effective factors in Bahar, Hamadan province. Methods and Materials: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 107 cases attempted to suicide from Jun 2007 to Oct 2008. The data were collected by questionnaire and analysed using Chi squared and Logistic regression tests. Findings: The rate of attempting suicide was 67 per 100000 in Bahar; of these 53.3% were males and 46.7 females. The highest rate of suicide was observed among 15-24 years old persons and the mean age for suicide was 26.8 ± 1.13 years. About 52.3% of the subjects were single and 59.8% of them were resided in urban area. Most of the suicide attempters were unemployed (29.8%) and housewife (67.5%) in the male and female group respectively. The most common method of suicide attempts was taking drugs (50.5%). Family problem with spouse and parents has been founded as the most common cause of suicide. Conclusions: Findings showed that 82% of the suicide actors were under the age of 30 and so special attention should be paid to them and their needs ought to be identified.

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Aim and Background: The purpose of this research was a quantitative study of family factors that interfere with suicide attempters. Methods and Materials: The research is descriptive. We used phenomenological and qualitative way. 20 suicide attempter's participants were selected by purpose-based way, and sampling continued to saturating. For data gathering, we used interview that accomplished by suicidal participants, their family and friends. For reaching to a valid and reliable data, we used supervisors and participants review criteria. Findings: Results of interview by codified data shown that 10 family factors effects on suicide. This factors in turn included in: 1.Parent’s real or emotional divorce, 2. Parental abuse, 3. Rejective and autocratic parenting style, 4. Lack of parent’s reinforcement and encouragement and hopefully, 5. Parent’s addiction, 6. Parent’s psychopathologic history, 7. Parent’s suicide attempts history, 8. Parent’s Attention and love  9. Religious disorientation, 10. Lack of organization and planning and aim for live. Conclusions: One of factors can be effective on suicide are family factors. Practitioners must attended to it in the prevention and cure.  

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Introduction: Man confronts crisis and problems during his life and sometimes because of several pressures commits suicide to escape and save himself. Suicide occurs in all classes of the society. Some of the demographic and social variables affecting suicide attempt are: age, sex, marital status, job, economic problems, communication and emotional problems, mental disorders and physical illness. Matrial and methods: This was a descriptive- analytic study carried out on 466 suicidal cases during a year in which the samplings referred to the emergency unit of Emam Khomeini hospital. Method of data collection was a questionnaire which was completed through the interviews. Raw data were analyzed by the SpSS software. Results: There was a significant difference between the following facetors: age(P=0/26), education (p=0), sex (p<0/05), marital status ( p=0/037), economic stress (p=0/001), job stress (p=0), marital and sexual stress (p=0) and suicide attempt. Conclusion: Communication and emotional problems especially in women and economic&nbsp; and job stress in men had the greatest role in suicide attempt in Falavarjan. Due to the sudden suicide attempt and the age group at risk of suicide -15-24 year- it is characterized that emotional immaturity lack of commuincation and poor problem solving skills - especially in these ages - can be involved in suicide attempt .

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Abstract Aim and Background: The aims of this study were to investigate risk factors for suicide attempte and compered it’s with non attempters. Methods and Materials: In a case-control study, 120 individuals suiside attempeter who had presented to Shahid Madani in the city of Azarshahr were compered with 140 control who were selected using conveniennce sampling, and were matched by a number of demographic factors with each other. Data were gathered using Family Assessment Device (FAD) , Coping Style Questionnaire and researcher-made stressor life events checklist, and were analyzed via Logistic Regression and T-test. Findings: Suicide attempeter had a poor performance in family features such as relation (p=0.02), problme solving (p=0.001), roles (p=0.001), sentiment sensitivity (p=0.01), sentiment involvement (p=0.001) and family general function (p=0.001) ,use emotion oriented coping style in general (p=0.001) and experinced stressor life events more than non attempters (p=0.001). 66 percent of the variance related to the suicide attempt is due to problme solving, family general function, problem oriented coping style and stressor life events, among which stressor life events (58 precent) and family general function had the lowest (1 percent) share. Conclusions: Unfavorablefamily features , ineffective coping style and stressor life events can lead to increased psychological issues such as suicide attempt.

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Abstract Aim and Background: Purpose of this study is evaluating and comparing clinical patterns personalities in suicide attempters and normal group. Methods and Materials: This causal &ndash; comparative expost facto research base study preformed on totally 90 suicide attempters, 18 to 21 years age. The study uses the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory . Multi &ndash; variable variance method is used; and the SPPSS19 soft ware is applied for data analysis. Findings: Statistics results show that there are a meaningful relation between all studied groups in all clinical pattern personalities scales (P<0.001), except for clinical Obsessive&ndash;Compulsive and Aggressive (Sadistic) personalities. The most meaningful difference among groups is more prevalent in clinical depressive disorder pattern. Conclusions: Suicide attempters have more abnormal clinical pattern personalities than normal group &nbsp;

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Aim and Background: The phenomenon of suicide has attracted the attention of many researchers. However, not many Iranian researchers have focused on the role of domestic violence in suicidal behavior. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the frequency of suicide attempts and domestic abuse. Methods and Materials: This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 246 married women who had attempted suicide and were hospitalized in the toxicology ward of Khorshid Hospital affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran, in 2015. The subjects were randomly selected and interviewed using the Hudson scale. Data were analyzed using chi-square test, t-test, ANOVA, and linear regression analysis in SPSS software. Findings: Among the variables associated with abuse, duration of abuse, history of physical violence, and the intensity of non-physical abuse had significant relationships with the number of suicide attempts. With each unit increase in standard deviation of physical abuse, the chance of suicide increased by 0.37%. This chance increased by 0.20% and 0.19%, respectively, in the case of non-physical violence and prolonged abuse. Conclusions: Without a doubt, domestic violence, depending on the duration and severity of abuse, increased the chance of suicide. Social and legal measures to prevent domestic abuse can reduce the risk of suicide.

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Aim and Background: The present research aimed to compare family functioning and parent's marital satisfaction among the adolescents with and without suicide attempt. Methods and Materials: The study sample consisted of 100 adolescents, 50 with and 50 without suicide attempt, who were selected via accessible sampling and clustered-randomized sampling methods, respectively. The without attempt group was matched with attempt group from the view of demographic characteristics. The Persian version of McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) and ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire with the reliability of 0.93 and 0.92, respectively, were completed by mothers. The data were using independent t, Pearson correlation coefficient, logistic regression tests, as well as descriptive statistics. Findings: There were significant differences in terms of family functioning and parents' marital satisfaction, and also their dimensions, between the two groups (P < 0.05). Moreover, there was a positive and significant correlation between these variables (P < 0.05). Family functioning and marital satisfaction could be the predictors of suicidal behavior in adolescents. The dimensions of roles in family functioning, the domain of personal affairs, financial management, marital satisfaction, and offspring's matrimony (child-nourishing) were the best predictor dimensions of suicidal behavior among the adolescents. Conclusions: Parents' marital satisfaction and family functioning impact the adolescents' suicidal behavior. This addresses the importance of systematic therapies, and presenting family and couple therapy in therapeutic sketches of adolescents with suicide attempts.

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Aim and Background: Suicide as one of the leading causes of death worldwide is a major public health concern; however, few studies have examined the factors influencing it in families on the verge of divorce. To determine the prediction of tendency to suicide based on the difficulty of emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, family flexibility, and distress tolerance in adolescents and young families on the eve of divorce in Isfahan.
Methods and Materials: The present study was a descriptive correlation that was performed in the statistical population of all adolescents and young families on the eve of divorce in Isfahan in the second six months of 2019-2020. According to the Cochran's formula, 373 people were selected and answered Beck scale for suicide ideation, difficulties in emotion regulation scale, cognitive flexibility inventory, family flexibility questionnaire and distress tolerance scale. Data collected by Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression were analyzed using SPSS-24 software.
Findings: The research findings showed that difficulty in emotion regulation a positive and significant relationship with the tendency to suicide. Cognitive flexibility, family flexibility and distress tolerance have a negative and significant relationship with tendency to suicide (P<0/01). Data from stepwise regression analysis also showed that cognitive flexibility and difficulty in emotion regulation have a combined ability to predict 17% of variance changes in tendency to suicide (P<0/01).
Conclusions: The results of the present study showed that difficulty in emotion regulation and cognitive flexibility play an important role in the tendency to suicide in adolescents and young families on the eve of divorce.

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Aim and Background: Suicide is a complex social consequence and it is an increasing problem among female students, and many skills and interventions have been provided to prevent suicide. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of holographic treatment on social curiosity and academic vitality of female students attempting suicide.
Methods and Materials: The current research was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test and a post-test with a control group. The statistical population included all female students of Isfahan secondary school in 1402 who had a history of suicide in the last two years. Among them, 30 people were selected by the available sampling method and were replaced randomly and by lottery in two experimental and control groups (15 people in the experimental group and 15 people in the control group). The experimental group received holographic therapy (9 sessions) and one session every week for 90 minutes, and the control group did not receive any intervention during this period. The research questionnaires included the social curiosity questionnaire of Todd et al. (2018) and the academic vitality scale of Martin and Marsh (2006). For data analysis, univariate covariance analysis was used with SPSS version 25 software.
Findings: The results showed that holographic therapy was effective in increasing social curiosity and academic vitality in the post-test phase (p<0. 001).
Conclusion: The findings of the present study can be used in the selection and design of the most appropriate therapeutic approach to reduce suicidal thoughts of female students with psychological distress.