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| Title |
A comparison of non-fatal self-poisoning among males and females, in Sri Lanka
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12888-014-0221-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thilini Rajapakse, Kathleen Margaret Griffiths, Helen Christensen, Sue Cotton |
| Abstract |
In the recent past Sri Lanka has had a high rate of attempted suicide by pesticide ingestion, among both males and females. Recent evidence suggests that these trends in self-poisoning may be changing, with increasing medicinal overdoses and changing gender ratios. In the past, attempted suicide in Sri Lanka has been described as impulsive acts, but research regarding aspects such as suicidal intent is limited, and there has been no comparison between genders. The objective of this study was to describe gender differences in non-fatal self-poisoning in Sri Lanka with respect to substances ingested, triggers, stressors, suicidal intent and psychiatric morbidity. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Kenya | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 138 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 21 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 10% |
| Researcher | 12 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 29 | 20% |
| Unknown | 42 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 30 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 10% |
| Unknown | 49 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2019.
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#4,566,731
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Outputs from BMC Psychiatry
#1,705
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#45,768
of 230,503 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychiatry
#20
of 73 outputs
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