This study was designed to investigate some clinical characteristics of 106 suicide attempters (male； 47, female; 59) who visited the Han Gang Sacred Heart Hospital from Apr. 1st. 1981. to Aug.31th. 1981. The results were as follows; 1. The highest rate was seen in the third decade of age and 60.4% of all were in their teens and twenties. 2. Elementary school graduates were most frequent among the male group and high school graduates occupied the largest part in the female group. 3. In view of marital status, the highest rate occured among the single in males whereas females were mostly married. 4. The data indicated that the high suicide attempt rates appear to occur among depressive neurotics, hysterical neurotics and those with personality disorders in that order. 5. Most attempters (83.096) were treated initially at the department of internal medicine and 91.5% of the females received primary care from internal medicine. 6. The psychiatric care was refused in 67.096 of attempters and the reasons for the refusal were financial difficulty (47.9%) and lack of understanding (36.6%). 7. Sixty three % of the depressive neurotic attempters said that they wanted to live and 44% of the hysterical neurotic attempters expressed their intention of threatening their family, not of killing themselves. 8. The precipitating events of the suicide attempts were marital discord in 40.6% and financialdifficalty in 19.8%. 9. The family of the attempters with hysterical neurosis noticed the premonitory signs of the attempts in 66.7% of the subjects. But 74.196 the attempters with hysterical neurosis insisted that they had never threatened their family, whereas 95.9% of the attempters with depressive neurosis had not shown any sign.
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