Study on characteristics of patients with suicide attempt, near-lethal harm and deliberate suicide

Between January-December 2009 data has been recorded regarding the patients with non-lethal self-injury and autolytic attempts through substance abuse and with suicide practicing the same method. The research describes the socio-demographic characteristics of patients who are vulnerable to self-aggression through substance abuse and points the differences between the patients who commit a non-lethal self-injury, the ones with attempted suicide and those who commit suicide. There are clear differences between patients who commit non-lethal self-injury and those who commit suicide, those considered to have committed a near-lethal autolytic attempt have many common features with suicidal ones, but also with the ones in the first category.