Table 1 Demographic features, along with the severity and causative agents of self-immolation among adults referring to Shiraz Burn hospitals during 2007–2017
From: Suicide by self-immolation in southern Iran: an epidemiological study
Self-immolation n = 657 | Total n = 3530 | P.value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequency | Percentage (%) | Frequency | Percentage (%) | ||
Sex | < 0.001 | ||||
Male | 242 | 36.8 | 2148 | 60.8 | |
Female | 415 | 63.2 | 1382 | 39.2 | |
Age (years) | < 0.001 | ||||
16 to 45 | 572 | 87.1 | 2679 | 75.9 | |
45 and above | 85 | 12.9 | 851 | 24.1 | |
Marital status | 0.034 | ||||
Single | 203 | 31.3 | 985 | 28.3 | |
Married | 430 | 66.3 | 2439 | 70.1 | |
Residence | < 0.001 | ||||
Urban | 274 | 41.7 | 1660 | 47 | |
Rural | 383 | 58.3 | 1869 | 53 | |
Education | < 0.001 | ||||
Illiterate | 110 | 16.9 | 684 | 19.5 | |
Under Diploma | 412 | 63.2 | 1906 | 54.3 | |
Diploma | 94 | 14.4 | 568 | 16.2 | |
Student | 5 | 0.8 | 303 | 8.6 | |
University Degree | 31 | 4.8 | 49 | 1.4 | |
Location | < 0.001 | ||||
Kitchen | 24 | 3.9 | 496 | 14.4 | |
Bath | 23 | 3.7 | 99 | 2.9 | |
Room | 198 | 31.8 | 953 | 2.9 | |
Yard | 219 | 35.2 | 575 | 16.6 | |
Workplace | 3 | 0.5 | 525 | 15.2 | |
Tent | 2 | 0.3 | 32 | 0.9 | |
Outdoors | 153 | 24.6 | 642 | 18.6 | |
Comorbid diseases | 0.733 | ||||
Epilepsy | 6 | 27.3 | 54 | 21.3 | |
Renal disease | 2 | 9.1 | 10 | 3.9 | |
Diabetes | 8 | 36.4 | 54 | 21.3 | |
Anemia | 1 | 4.5 | 3 | 1.2 | |
Asthma | 1 | 4.5 | 8 | 3.1 | |
Hypertension | 1 | 4.5 | 18 | 7.1 | |
Thyroid disease | 1 | 4.5 | 13 | 5.1 | |
Migraine | 1 | 4.5 | 10 | 3.9 | |
Hermaphrodite | 1 | 4.5 | 1 | 0.4 | |
Source | < 0.001 | ||||
Fire | 610 | 95.8 | 1752 | 51.8 | |
Explosive | 26 | 4.1 | 1130 | 33.4 | |
Electrical | 1 | 0.2 | 228 | 6.7 | |
Percentage of burn | < 0.001 | ||||
< 20% | 40 | 6.1 | 1071 | 30.3 | |
20–40% | 120 | 18.3 | 1110 | 31.5 | |
40–60% | 131 | 19.9 | 584 | 764 | |
> 60% | 366 | 55.7 | 765 | 21.6 | |