The International journal of social psychiatry
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Sri Lanka is a developing Asian country with high suicide rate due to self poisoning, related to a high fatality rate. A study of motivational aspects of self poisoning in 97 consecutive patients showed that there is no greater intention of suicide in them than those from the developed countries. ⋯ Improving family relations may help in the prevention of self-poisoning. However the impulsive nature of the act might prove prevention a difficult task.