An Annual Survey of Successful Suicide Incidence in Hamadan, western Iran

Background: suicide has constituted a critical public health problem for many decades. the numberof completed suicide is traditionally high in iran. the objective of the present study was to describe thepatterns of methods of suicide among registered deaths due to suicide in hamada, western iranmethods: in this cross-sectional study, all completed suicide cases (n=146) were included from march2004 through march 2005 based on hamadan's forensic center registered deaths because of suicide.supplementary data were gauged through a questionnaire from the attempters’ relatives. all statisticalanalyses were performed using version 13 of the statistical software package spss and an alpha levelof .05 for all statistical tests.results: prevalence of completed suicide was 8.3 per 100,000 in hamadan, iran. from 146 cases, themale-to-female ratio was 7.1:1. average age of cases was 33.9 yr (min=10, max=94) across all agegroups, males show consistently higher completed suicide rates than females. of the 69.2% were fromurban population versus 30.8% form rural population. the most common method of suicide washanging (78.1 %). other common methods were poisoning (11.6%), and self-burning (6.2%).conclusion: suicide rate in hamadan is high among males through hanging which can be due tosubstance dependency and unemployment.