Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 23. No. 1., 2011.
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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN RELATION TO SUICIDES COMMITTED IN THE CAPITAL OF MONTENEGRO (PODGORICA) IN THE PERIOD 2000-2006
Lidija Injac Stevović
Miroslava Jašović-Gašić
Olivera Vuković
Mirko Peković
Nataša Terzić
Sažetak
Background: The purpose of the study was to research gender differences in suicides committed in Podgorica between 2000 and
2006, including sociodemographic variables (e.g. age, marital status, education etc.), methods of and motives for committing suicide.
Data were taken from the Police Directorate of Montenegro.
Subjects and methods: We used data on 220 males and 83 females who committed suicide. Statistical analysis was done by using
the crude specific rate. Significance between two independent crude rates is constructed around their 95% confidence intervals and
it utilizes the difference between the two rates (D) to determine significance.
Results: The incidence of suicide in males was found to be higher than in females (the male to female suicide ratio is 2.6 to 1).
Females were older than males. Females had completed elementary education more frequently , and they were single or divorced or
widows. Males had completed secondary education more frequently and they were married. The most frequent employment status of
both gender groups implied pensioner and unemployment statuses. There was a significant difference in suicide rates between the
genders during the reporting period. Suicide rates increase with age in both genders. Males chose firearms, hanging, strangulation
and suffocation and jumping. Females chose hanging, strangulation and suffocation, jumping and drowning as the most frequent
methods of suicide. The most frequent motive for suicide in both gender groups was physical illness. The second most frequent
motive was mental illness. Emotional and financial difficulties were motives which were more common in males, whereas family
problems appeared to be motives two times more frequent in females.
Conclusions: The complex multifactorial etiology of suicide suggests the need to consider gender differences when developing
effective strategies for the therapy and the prevention of suicide.
Ključne riječi
suicide; gender differences; epidemiology; Montenegro
Hrčak ID:
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Datum izdavanja:
31.3.2011.
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