1Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India
3Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India
4Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India
5Professor and Head, Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India
Online published on 3 March, 2017.
Hospital suicides create a unique challenge for the administrators, doctors, caregivers, nurses, and other patients in the ward. Risk factors associated with suicide attempt during hospital stay are: feminine gender, borderline personality disorder, earlier psychiatric hospitalizations, shorter duration of the disorder, and earlier age of onset. In India, there is a culture difference among different people and it shows wide variation in the suicide rates. The literature on suicides who are suffering from cancer in a hospital setting is limited. We discuss an inpatient suicidal hanging who had metastatic adenocarcinoma of a liver along with inpatient suicide and its psychological aspects.
Hospital Suicides, Risk Factors, Postmortem study, Nursing care Precautions
