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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE POISONING AND ITS POST PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT: A RETROSPECTIVE RECORD BASED STUDY AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN MANDYA

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Suicide, Psychiatric issues, Stomach wash, NPO (Nothing by Mouth), Antidotes.

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BACKGROUND: Around Eight Lakh people worldwide die from suicide every year. Poisoning is the most common method of committing suicide in India. Among all poisoning cases, many patients present to the emergency department with complaints of intentional poisoning are presented with Depressive and other psychiatric disorders. Those who are actively involved in suicidal attempts may be referred to psychiatric care. In those with mental health problems, number of treatments may reduce the risk of suicide. Management of poisoning and post psychiatric care helps the patient to resolve both physical and mental health. OBJECTIVES: To describe the treatment for poisoning and post psychiatric treatment after the management of poisoning. METHODOLOGY: A retrospective record-based study was carried out for a period of 6 months, all the individuals admitted due to intentional poisoning and was referred to psychiatric department of MIMS, Mandya. RESULTS: A total of 152 patients’ information had taken, among them 83 were males and 69 were females. Most of them belonged to the age group of 21-30 (42.76%). The most commonly used poison was found to be insecticides (29.92%). Psychiatric issue (44.73%) was found to be the most common cause for the suicide attempts. Antacids, rehydration fluids were the most commonly administered therapeutic treatment. 27 patients were given antidotes for the poison. Majority of the poison cases were treated with the primary non-pharmacological treatment (stomach wash, RT aspiration and NPO). Later the psychiatric problems were evaluated and 50.65% of the patients were treated with anti-depressants. Nonpharmacological managements such as counselling, psychoeducation, CBT, psychotherapy were also provided to the patients. CONCLUSION: The findings revealed that psychiatric issues were the most common cause for suicides and was common among the age group of 21-30. And the management of the poisoning were mainly done by stomach wash and rehydration therapies followed by psychiatric management mainly by anti-depressants and psychiatric counselling.

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Kavya S, Melgin John Paleeth, Mohamed Thafqueem, & Mr. Andrew Gnanaprakasam J. (April-2025). ATTEMPTED SUICIDE POISONING AND ITS POST PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT: A RETROSPECTIVE RECORD BASED STUDY AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN MANDYA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 10(4), g184-g189. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2504618.pdf

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