Gender aspect of suicidological profile of persons with hazardous alcohol consumption

The question of defining auto-aggression associated with alcohol consumption still remains open. Due to the RUSAUDIT test, which discovers “dangerous alcohol consumption”, it became possible to develop a risk group for developing alcohol addiction and determine special consequences, and therefore assess their place in the continuum of paraalcoholic auto-aggression. In this work, we discover the question if the gender of a person who has a pattern of hazardous alcohol consumption, influences their auto-aggressive characteristics. The aim of this study is to study the suicidological characteristics of people with hazardous alcohol consumption in relation to their gender. Materials and methods. The study involved 435 young women (86 with hazardous alcohol consumption, 349 without it) and 456 young men (56 with hazardous alcohol consumption, 400 without it). The main criterion for acceptance into the corresponding group was the dangerous consumption of alcohol score on the RUS-AUDIT test. Mathematical data processing is carried out using the SPSS program. Results and its discussion. Young men with hazardous drinking are twice as likely as women to have attempted suicide in the last two years, which is almost comparable to adult males already addicted to alcohol. The combination of suicidal thoughts with a suicide attempt in the studied male group was 17.86%, in the female group it was 10.47%. Various cases of risky and life-threatening behavior in the assessment with impulsivity significantly prevail (p<0.05) in men, the manifestations of the group, thus showing a kind of “male” variant of the gender vector of auto-aggressive behavior. Narcological gender characteristics of young people with hazardous alcohol consumption (recognition of alcohol abuse in the last two years ) in the female group of alcoholics is 6 times less than in the group of men, which needs development. Feelings of hopelessness and low mood as the most important risk factors for suicidal behavior were mentioned by 50 percent or more of the people in the study groups. Men with hazardous alcohol consumption demonstrated “closedness”, a tendency to “keep everything in themselves”, which is quite consistent with the lower frequency of thinking about the need to visit a psychiatrist / psychotherapist compared to women in the study group (46.15% vs. 68.05%). Conclusions. With adverse events in the whole suicidological profile in the identified foci, however, there are certain gender characteristics, the identification of fundamental importance for the formation of theoretical ideas and practical work of a suicidologist in narcology. Classical suicidal phenomena on the development of an alcohol trajectory are less typical for young women with dangerous forms of alcohol consumption. However, a number of predictors of auto-aggressive broad behavior of an affective type are often found in the group. Men with hazardous alcohol consumption are characterized by risky-victim models of realization of auto-aggressive impulses and PAS consumption.