Gender Differences in Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior in Pakistan: Significance of Sociocultural Factors

Murad Moosa Khan

82 citations0/0 files storedSuicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Mental Health Treatment and Access Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

Abstract

Suicidal behavior is an understudied subject in Pakistan. A variety of social, legal, and religious factors make reporting and data collection on suicide and nonfatal suicidal behavior difficult. To study the problem, a retrospective case-note analysis was carried out in which the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of 262 female and 185 male suicidal individuals admitted to a university hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, are compared. Three quarters of the suicidal persons were under the age of 30 years. Compared to men, women were younger and more often married. Both women and men tended to use self-poisoning with benzodiazepines, but more women used organophosphate insecticides. In Pakistani society, legal, social, and economic discrimination predisposes women to psychological distress and subsequent suicidal behavior. The study highlights the need for culture-specific research on suicidal behavior in Pakistan.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 82 citations exist upstream.

References

1956Suicide and Attempted Suicide 1994Gender differences in completed and attempted suicides 1979The reasons people give for taking overdoses: A further inquiry 1977Parasuicide in Edinburgh—A Seven-Year Review 1968–74 1987Ethnic Differences in Self-poisoning 1966Suicide and Attempted Suicide 1959Attempted Suicide, Its Social Significance and Effects 1986Ethnic Differences in Self-poisoning: A Comparison of Asian and White Groups

Cited by

2013Girl Child Marriage and Its Effect on Fertility in Pakistan: Findings from Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, 2006–2007 2006Self-harm in the UK 2010Suicide Among Young Middle Eastern Muslim Females 1970A Community Survey on the Prevalence of Suicidal Attempts and Deaths in a Selected Rural Area of Bangladesh 2002Struggling Against Suicide 2006Women and Suicidal Behavior

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.