SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO HAVE COMMITTED A SUICIDE ATTEMPT
The article presents an analysis of the main sociodemographic characteristics of military personnel committed suicide, as well as a number of macro and micro-social factors that contributed to the formation of suicidal behaviour. The main object of the research was military personnel suffering from mental disorders who were hospitalized in the psychiatric department of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Defence, from 2001 to 2011, in a result of various forms of suicidal behaviour. The total number of surveyed is 205, 70 of them were officers, 135 were rank-and-file military personnel. The research identified the main parameters of the above mentioned indicators, which are predictors of suicidal behaviour: a relatively low level of education, inhabitancy in rural areas (especially among the officers), the period of service in the ranks of the Armed Forces, the characteristics of the family (especially among the rank and file), social status of the parents of military personnel, family relationships, the nature of nurture (especially disharmonious and hyper protection), attitude to religion.