A population-based analysis of suicidality and its correlates: findings from the National Mental Health Survey of India, 2015-16
Senthil Amudhan, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, Girish Nagaraja Rao, David Vincent Sheehan, Arun Mahadeo Kokane, Bir Singh Chavan, Pronob Kumar Dalal, Daya Ram, Kangkan Pathak, Raj Kumar Lenin Singh, Lokesh Kumar Singh, Pradeep Sharma, Pradeep Kumar Saha, Chellamuthu Ramasubramanian, Ritambhara Yeshwant Mehta, Theerthankara Meethal Shibukumar
India accounts for 18% of the global population and 26·6% of global suicide deaths. However, robust population-based, nationally representative data on suicidality are not readily available to plan and implement suicide prevention programmes in India. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and sociodemographic differentials of suicidality using data from the National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) of India, 2015-16
Article, 2020