Objective: To see level of self-esteem among depressed patients having impending suicidal intent coming to Outpatient Department of Psychiatry Liaquat university of Medical & Health sciences, Sir Cowasjee Jahangir Institute Of Psychiatry. Study Design Cross sectional study Setting: Liaqauat University of Medical & Health Sciences Department, Sir Cowasjee Jahangir Institute of Psychiatry, Out Patient Department. Duration Study: Six months (April 2014 to September 2014). Material and Methods: A total of 150 patients were recruited purposive convenient sampling. An Informed written consent was taken from patients after fully explaining the purpose and benefits of the study. Detailed history, physical and mental state examination were recorded and organicity was ruled out. Depression was assessed and was categorized into mild, moderate and severe by using ICD -10 Diagnostic Criteria for Depression. Beck suicide intent scale was applied afterwards to see the current intent and details of previous attempt, Rosenberg’s self esteem scale were applied to see the levels of self esteem. A Performa having all socio demo graphic variables like age, gender, marital status, education, occupation, employment status, socio economic background ,depression, self esteem and suicidal intent scores . Collected data were entered and analyzed in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version16.0. Means and Standard deviation was calculated for continuous variables and frequency and percentages were calculated for categorical variables. Results: The present study had been conducted to explore the level of self-esteem among depressed patients with suicidal intent Out of 150 participants, high suicidal intent was found to be highest at 78(52%) with severe depression 80(53.3.3%). Factors endorsing low self esteem were young, married females 89(59.3%) ,educated ,employed belonging to middle socioeconomic group .The findings of present study indicated a strong positive correlation of suicidal intent with depression(r=.8, p=.000). We also found that there was a positive correlation between self esteem and suicidal intent as self esteem decreases (low self esteem increases); suicidal intent increases (r=.8, p=.000) and also positive relationship between depression and self esteem (r=.7, p=.000). The overall positive relation indicated that when depression increases the suicidal intent also increases and the increment of low self esteem was also found to have a strong relationship with both depression and suicidal intent.
