Transcultural Psychiatry
Volume 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 243-254

Suicide in Emigrants from the Indian Subcontinent (Article)

Lester D.*
  • a Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey, United States

Abstract

A survey of suicide in the four nations in the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and among emigrants from those nations in other nations revealed little that was culturally invariant in these groups. The suicide rates and sex ratio varied greatly between the different groups. There was a trend for young females and elderly males to have relatively higher suicide rates, and poisoning (followed by hanging) was the most popular method for suicide. Suggestions are made for future research on this topic. © 2000, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

India Suicide Migration Gender

Index Keywords

self poisoning Pakistan Review Bangladesh ethnic difference India Sri Lanka sex ratio human Suicide migration hanging
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0034095880&doi=10.1177%2f136346150003700206&partnerID=40&md5=0d078c20e25c374392c957da49f9aae7
DOI: 10.1177/136346150003700206
ISSN: 13634615
Cited by: 10
Original Language: English