Post Facto Denial of Suicidal Intent in Suicide Attempts by Self-Burning in Kurdish Women
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction:A wave of suicides by self-burning in young to middle-aged women was recently observed by medical staff in the ethnically Kurdish region of Northern Iraq. Materials and Method:The present study evaluated 15 female Kurdish patients (average age 26.7 years, SD=8.8) hospitalized for severe burns in that geographic region. Results:The area of the afflicted body surface ranged from 17% to 100% (average at 49.4 %, SD=26.7).The severity of the burns was determined to be of 3 rd degree in 11 of 12 patients for whom these ratings were available.While medical staff rated the burns in 14 of the 15 women (93.3%) as self-inflicted, only two of these patients (13.3%) admitted that their burns were intentional.Discussion: Perhaps these patients' denial was an attempt to avoid social or religious sanctions because Islam considers suicide as a major sin.Suicidal immolation has been more extensively studied in the neighboring Iran where it was also observed more frequently in females.Self-immolations are certainly not unique to the Middle-East as shown by a meta-analytic review by Thombs and Bresnick on US patients. Conclusion:Suicides by self-burning observed in this sample of Kurdish women were mostly of a very severe nature (3 rd degree burns) and involved predominantly young married women.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".