title: Parasuicide in the Durban Indian community.
abstract: Biographical and psychiatric factors in 100 patients referred to a department of psychiatry after a suicide attempt were surveyed. One of the major precipitants of parasuicide in the present study, and found in all cases, was an interpersonal dispute; this involved extended family in 63 cases and marital or romantic relationships in 81.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior; D013019:South Africa; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*