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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;