SUICÍDIO NA ADOLESCÊNCIA.

Abstract

PARTE I: Recent studies show that there was significant growth in the number of suicides among teenagers. Firstly, literature review on the topic was held. Subsequently, we developed an empirical study in a town in Goias, popularly known by the occurrence of suicides . Participated in the empirical study of 371 adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years living and studying in the city. Data were collected in two schools, one public and one private. Its objective was to evaluate rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in adolescents. According to the data it is observed that the total of 371 adolescents surveyed 321 (86.5 %) reported never having attempted suicide. However, 47 (12.7%) reported having attempted suicide in the past 12 months. Furthermore, while 301 (81.4 %) of teenagers have not submitted suicidal ideation, 67 or 18.2 % reported having thought about suicide. Furthermore, we sought to evaluate the relationship between suicidal ideation and suicide attempt with self-reported behavior problems. The instrument used was the Youth Self Report (YSR) developed by Achenbach (1991). This study showed that as much as suicidal ideation suicide attempts were associated with behavior problems analyzed as anxiety and depression, social isolation and depression, somatic problems, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule-breaking behavior, aggressive, internalizing and externalizing problems. The present study may be a subsidy to assist in the development of public policy and the health care more geared to this population and the region, in view of the reports of representative bodies from the municipality about the large number of attempts and suicides in the past years. PARTE II: This article aims to evaluate rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in adolescents from an inner city of Goiás popularly known by the occurrence of suicides. Furthermore, we sought to evaluate the relationship between suicidal ideation and suicide attempt with self-reported behavior problems. The study included 371 adolescents from two schools, one private and one public. At the time of data collection, participants were attending to the corresponding Secondary School (sixth to ninth year) school years. Their ages ranged from 13 to 18 years old. Of these, 163 or 43.9% were boys and 208 or 56.1 % were girls. The data indicate that the total of 371 adolescents surveyed 321 (86.5 %) reported never having attempted suicide. However, 47 (12.7%) reported having attempted suicide in the past 12 months. Moreover, while 301 (81.4 %) of teenagers have not submitted suicidal ideation, 67 or 18.2% reported having thought about suicide. Teens who think suicide attempt do so in the next 6 months. A significant relationship between suicidal ideation and suicide attempt with behavior problems analyzed .