# From distress to death: Institutional and regional patterns of student suicides in India - URL: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev1307 - Language: en - Last updated: not specified - Page title: From distress to death: Institutional and regional patterns of student suicides in India | WCP 2026 Summary > Among 181 cases of student suicide in India compiled from media and scientific sources, the most common precipitating factor was academic and institutional str… This page was translated automatically from Turkish. [Read the original](https://alisanburak.com/wcp-2026-posterler/ev1307) This page is an AI-assisted Turkish summary of the study presented at the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry. The study belongs to the presenting authors; please refer to the original source when citing it. EV1307 E-PosterSuicide and CrisisRetrospective descriptive study (media- and records-based) # From distress to death: Institutional and regional patterns of student suicides in India FROM DISTRESS TO DEATH: INSTITUTIONAL AND REGIONAL PATTERNS OF STUDENT SUICIDE IN INDIA Presenter: Saksham Chaudhry Country: India Institution: All India Institute of Medical Sciences Gorakhpur, Department of Psychiatry Among 181 cases of student suicide in India compiled from media and scientific sources, the most common precipitating factor was academic and institutional stress (36.0%), with cases concentrated during examination and results periods and among medical students and students preparing for competitive examinations. The aim is to contribute to a shift from a reactive approach to data-driven prevention by examining institutional and regional vulnerabilities in student suicides in India. The methodology involved screening 2,350 records from national and regional media reports and scientific sources between July 2023 and August 2025; the initial 1,560 media reports and 790 scientific/academic records were reduced to 510 unique reports after removing approximately 420 duplicates and approximately 1,420 irrelevant records or records outside the study period. After excluding secondary summaries and records lacking verifiable clinical details, the final dataset comprised 181 unique cases of student suicide. The mean age was 20.46 ± 3.69 years, and 54.3% of cases were male and 45.7% female; age was reported in 72.4% of cases. Academic subgroups comprised undergraduate medical students (24.3%), students preparing for competitive examinations (23.2%), engineering students (13.3%), other undergraduates (15.5%), postgraduate medical trainees/residents (8.8%), other postgraduate students (8.3%), and school students (6.6%). Precipitating factors (n = 181) included academic and institutional stress (36.0%), abuse and harassment (14.4%), psychiatric conditions (12.7%), social/interpersonal problems (10.0%), relationship distress (2.8%), behavioral/digital factors (3.4%), financial problems (2.2%), and other factors (4.4%). Among the 143 cases with a known mechanism, the distribution of methods was hanging (67.1%), jumping from a height (14.7%), ingestion of poison (7.7%), self-injection (4.9%), and other methods (5.6%); the monthly distribution peaked in May (11.6%) and August (12.2%), coinciding with examination and results periods. By city tier, 35.9% of cases were from small cities (Tier 3), 27.6% from medium-sized cities (Tier 2), and 24.3% from metropolitan cities (Tier 1); suicide notes were found in 25.4% of cases (n = 46), with themes comprising blame directed at individuals/institutions (32.6%), apologies and gratitude to parents (28.2%), self-identification as a failure (21.7%), and other/unclear themes (17.5%). Previously documented suicidal ideation was recorded in only 4.4% of cases. The authors state that this disconnect between the absence of clinical records and distress documented after death indicates a systemic failure, and that high-pressure academic environments require institutional accountability and structural reform beyond individual support. [View the original poster](https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/771) How to cite this study APA 7: Chaudhry, S., et al. (2026, September 23-26). From distress to death: institutional and regional patterns of student suicide in india [E-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/771 Vancouver: Chaudhry S, et al. From distress to death: institutional and regional patterns of student suicide in india [e-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. 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