Increasing trend of deaths due to suicide attributable to mental disorders and substance use (disorders) in India

Akanksha Jayant Rajguru; Yatan Pal Singh Balhara

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103722

Increasing trend of deaths due to suicide attributable to mental disorders and substance use (disorders) in India

Asian J Psychiatr. 2023 Oct:88:103722. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103722. Epub 2023 Aug 4.

Authors

Akanksha Jayant Rajguru¹, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara²

Affiliations

¹ National Drug Dependence Treatment Center and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
² Behavioral Addictions Clinic (BAC), National Drug Dependence Treatment Center and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. Electronic address: ypsbalhara@gmail.com.

PMID: 37579548
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103722

Abstract

In this article we aim to assess the change in the deaths due to suicide attributable to mental disorders and substance use (disorders) in India over the past 26 years. We also aim to make projections over the coming years. For the deaths due to suicide attributable to mental disorders there was a biquadratic increasing trend with equations predicting 85.97%, 90.76% and 85.79% variance in the males, females and total deaths, respectively. There was a quadratic increase explaining 94.83% variance in males, 61.79% in females and 95.41% variance in deaths due to suicide attributable to substance use (disorders).

Keywords: Mental disorders; Substance use; Suicide; Trends.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Female
Humans
India / epidemiology
Male
Mental Disorders* / mortality
Middle Aged
Substance-Related Disorders* / mortality
Suicide* / statistics & numerical data
Suicide* / trends
Young Adult