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• TITLE: The Underlying Reasons of Suicide Attempts among Arab Population in the Holy-Land—Nazareth: View and Overview

  AUTHORS: Elia Haj, Eisa Hag, Riad Hanna, Farhat Kamal, Bisharat Bishara, Bowirrat Abdalla

  KEYWORDS: Suicidal Behaviour, Holly Land, Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Prevention Strategy

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, Vol.4 No.4, April 25, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in many western countries, but in eastern countries this phenomenon was until recently extremely rare. Our study, performed during 2005-2012 comes to shed lights on the prevalence and the underlying reasons of the notable increase of suicide attempts in the conservative and religious Arab community of Nazareth, Israel. Extensive interviews, sociodemographic information, suicide risk factors in addition to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) diagnoses were used in current retrospective study of 772 suicide attempters in the emergency room at the Nazareth Hospital. Statistical analysis using SPSS version 17, Pearson χ2 analysis and percentage distribution were used for the statistical analysis. We considered the differences to be significant at the level of p