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• Title: Common Agents Used in Parasuicide in Buffalo City (Report)
• Author : South African Journal of Psychiatry
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 194 KB

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Parasuicide is defined in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s International Classification of Diseases (1992) (1) as follows: 'Parasuicide is an act with nonfatal outcome, in which an individual deliberately initiates a non-habitual behaviour, that without intervention from others will cause self harm; or deliberately ingests a substance in excess of the prescribed or generally recognised therapeutic dosage and which is aimed at realizing changes which the subject desired via the actual or expected physical consequences.' Parasuicide is a significant predictor of completed suicide. (2,3) Shaffer4 reported that suicide attempts are more common during adolescence. The exact figures for parasuicide among adolescents worldwide are unknown; the WHO estimates the rate to be 40-100 times higher than the suicide rate recorded each year. (5) In 2001 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that suicide was the third leading cause of death among persons aged 10-19 years in the USA. (6)

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