Suicidal characteristics of young men with hazardous alcohol consumption

The fact that auto-aggressive behavior is associated with alcohol abuse is widely known among the scientific community. A number of works relating to the association of suicidal behavior with alcoholization often used the criterion of volumetric doses of alcohol consumption per capita, and also estimated the number of suicides in a particular region or country, where a positive correlation was often found between an increase in alcohol consumption and an increase in the number of suicides. However, alcohol consumption per capita (per capita) is formed not only by people who already have alcohol addiction, but also by those who abuse alcohol at the prenosological level. The latter, of course, can contribute to the total paraalcoholic indicators of suicidal mortality. Currently, there are no data on the suicidological characteristics of individuals with prenosological forms of alcohol abuse, in particular, with dangerous forms of consumption. Materials and methods. 456 men aged 20 to 27 years old, studying at the university, were studied. Of these, 56 had "dangerous alcohol consumption" and were included in the study group. The control group consisted of 400 young men who were not assessed as dangerous users. RUS-AUDUT was used as the main research tool. To assess the presence of suicidologically significant patterns, a questionnaire was used to identify auto-aggressive patterns in the past and present. Mathematical data processing was carried out using the SPSS program. Results and discussion. The number of suicide attempts in the study group was ten times higher than that in the control group in the last two years, and throughout life in general it exceeded five times. Preclinical alcohol abuse in the group of young men affected the frequency of detection of suicidal thoughts (60.71% in the study group versus 27.5% in the control group). Selfharm in the last two years also prevailed in the study group (14.29% versus 3.5% in the control group). Conclusions. The studied group of males with patterns of dangerous alcohol consumption is a very unfavorable category in terms of suicidology, requiring further, more detailed study. The data obtained during the study should be used in the assessment of suicidal risk among young men.