Perfil psicossocial dos pacientes suicidas atendidos na emergência de um hospital escola / Psychosocial profile of suicidal patients attended in a teaching hospital emergency.

AUTOR(ES)

Vítor Giacomini Flosi

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Introduction: Suicide is self-infringed intentional death. The prevalence of suicidal rates varies from culture to culture and from time to time in the same culture. A growing tendency for female, adolescent and young adult has been observed. The current study attempts to describe the psychosocial profile of 40 patients attended in HB-FAMERP Hospital casualty due to suicide attempts. Method: A combination of measures was used while patients were in hospital. The Attempting Suicide Questionnaire, the Hamilton Depression Scale (Ham-D), the Beck Scale for Suicidal Intention (BSI), Two-question Questionnaire and the Goldberg Scale for Depression. Results: Results demonstrated that the male proportion was 37,5% and the female proportion was 62,5%. Self-poisoning was the most used method (95%): 50,3% by psychotropic drugs and 27,7% by pesticides. The average score for male and female was 9,86 (BSI) and 18,8 (Ham-D), and 15 (BSI) and 28,36 (Ham-D), respectively. Patients who had no history of previous suicide attempts were 52,5%. Affective Disorders with depressive episode were identified as diagnostic hypothesis in 87,5% of sample, in which 54,3% was considered grave, 25,7% considered moderate, and 20% tenuous. Family income was lower than 3 minimum wages for 73,5% and per capita family income was up to a minimum salary for 87,5% of the total. Conclusions: Patients are mainly young women, people from working class and with low intent. Self-poisoning is the commonest method. Affective Disorder is the usual diagnosis and most patients presented depression symptoms.

ASSUNTO(S)

psiquiatria hospitals teaching apoyo social psychosocial profile emergencies apoio social emergências hospitais de ensino suicide emergency urgencias médicas tentativa de suicídio attempt intento de suicidio social support psiquiatria teaching hospital suicíde attempted

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