Abstract:
Psychological autopsy method was used to investigate potential risk factors and the
cicumstances that led to completed acts of suicide.From this information,a psychological
tretment package was developed based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)linking the
community-based to tretment development research.The knowledge on the risk factors
significantly associated with suicide prevention programmes.Suicide prevention should be
commuinty based as most of these people do not visit a health care provider.Adequate
tretment of psychiatric patients and improved detection and tretment of commen mental
disoders in the general population are essential for suicide prevention .Researchers
extending this study further inthe community can give more insight into the issue
