Effect of Satellite Channels on Accretion Suicide Statistics in Ilam

Leisure time is important as a need for modern living of man such that it filling the leisure time of any community is one of the concerns of states. Today, according to the principle of inter-institutions competition, TV has a close relation with training systems and family and this media is attempting to have a main situation for directing and controlling the community, particularly adolescents and young people; therefore, this media can provide the fields for fortune or misfortune of next generation; thus planners require to coordinate the training system with programs of this media, but due to information explosion of political systems, TV waves, as an unwanted guest, have broken all family privacy and trying to force themselves on the communities. Ilam, as located in the western borders of Iran in neighborhood with other countries, is able to easily receive TV waves of such countries and this will come with negative effects for modeling of such cultures and attaining the identity of foreigners. In this study sample size determined by Kokaran formula, that is one of the famous methods for determining sample size. Therefore, 300 people in Ilam who committed suicide on 2012 were selected as sample and by designing a questionnaire, the studies were begun. The reliability of this questionnaire was verified by Cronbach’s alpha test with statistical value of 0.744. At the end of this study, we concluded that economic factors are considered as the most effective factor influencing on suicide followed by cultural, social factors, family relations, religious factors and health level. Using satellite has also seventh situation among others indicating that satellite has less influence on such action.