Pattern of suicide in Kurdistan region/Iraq in the past three years and methods of recognition

Abstract

Background  According  to  world  health  organization  estimation  over  800000 people die by suicide every single year which corresponds to a rate of 11.5 per 100000 of population worldwide and gives a number of a one suicide death every 40  minutes. according  to  a  study  by  the  “Intentional  injuries  in  the  Eastern Mediterranean Region 1990 -2015 that is done in 22 countries of the middle east including Iraq, the study states that there is 100 percent increase in the suicide rates in the 25 years study in the region compared to not more than 19 percent increase in Europe which led them to call it the lost generation study. The objectives of this study are:To establish the pattern of suicide attempts in Kurdistan \ Iraq, to classify the most common methods used to commit the suicide and to establish the best methods to be used to identify the actual suicide from the fake one that planned to be as suicide but are criminal in their nature (homicide.)
Method This research was made by collecting the data regarding the suicidal cases and homicidal cases in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 for Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok.
Results The total number of the studied files was 248 file of suicidal cases that occurred in Erbil during the years 2015-2017 in which I obtained the data about each  victim  individually,  while  the  total  cases  including  Duhok,  Sulaimanya, Halabcha, Soran, Karmean, and Rapereen are exactly 564 cases (plus the 248 from Erbil) in which we couldn’t obtain the individuals exact data.
The highest rate of suicide in male individuals were using the firearms, while in females was the self-burn, male individuals (464)  were more than the females (348) in all the governorates, the most common age of suicide inside Erbil is the age between 20-29 (87cases.)
Conclusion
The prevalence of suicide in Erbil were 3.96 (per 100000) in the years from 2015- 2016, while in Kurdistan as all was harder to find (less data about Kurdistan population) and it was 3.83 (per 100000) in the same years