• Alireza Mirahmadizadeh, Fariba Rezaei, Leila Moftakhar, Neda Heiran, and Habibollah Azarbakhsh.
• Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
• Arch Iran Med. 2022 Jan 1; 25 (1): 12-16.

BackgroundSuicide is a major public health concern with diversity in epidemiological aspects and applied methods. In this study, we estimate years of life lost (YLLs) related to completed suicidal in the Fars province, southern Iran.MethodsOur study included data of all mortality events during 2011-2018 from Fars Suicide Surveillance System (FSSS). The validity of qualitative and quantitative variables was assessed through contrasting data between different sources and phone call justification. Case-fatality rates, age-specific and gender-specific mortality rates, ASR (age standardized rate), and YLLs through WHO's 2015 "YLL template" were calculated.ResultsDuring the study period, 2384 mortalities with a mean age of 32.73±15.65 had been registered. Most of them were males (male: 70.05% vs. female: 29.95%; male-female ratio: 2.33), hanging was the most frequent method (29.94%), and an increasing pattern in successful suicidal attempts was observed. The total YLLs were calculated to be 58669 years (14.71 per 1000 persons). Regardless of year or gender, suicide had the largest YLLs amongst those aged 15-29 years.ConclusionRegarding the increasing trend in YLLs and observing the highest rate of successful suicidal attempts amongst active and productive members of community, a comprehensive inter organizational reaction is demanded.2022 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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