Tentativas autolíticas:importante problema de salud en servicios de urgencia

  1. Óscar Pajares González-Gallego 1
  2. Elisa Isabel Gómez Moratilla 2
  3. Rafael Castillejo Arroyo 3
  4. Cristina Martín García 2
  5. Patricia Miguel Mata 4
  6. Sonia Martínez Castellano 2
  1. 1 Enfermero. Supervisor de la Unidad de Psiquiatría. Unidad de Psiquiatría del Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Madrid, España
  2. 2 Enfermera. Unidad de Psiquiatría del Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Madrid, España
  3. 3 Enfermero. Unidad de Psiquiatría del Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Madrid, España
  4. 4 Enfermera especialista en Salud Mental. Unidad de Psiquiatría del Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Madrid, España
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Presencia: Salud mental, investigación y humanidades

ISSN: 1885-0219

Year of publication: 2008

Volume: 4

Issue: 8

Type: Article

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Abstract

Attempted suicide presents higher incidence than consummated suicides. This fact generates elevated pressure assistance at the Emergency Service. The attempts have been associated with different epidemiologic factors such as age, sex, previous psychiatric disease.The aim of this study was to set up the patients' socio-demographic profile who come at Fuenlabrada Hospital with an attempted suicide diagnosis. Results show how attempted suicide was more frecuent in women (70%), in patients aged between 16-55 years old (70%). Whereas, the most prevalent diagnosis was the adjustment disorder (39%). Most of the patients had primary studies (68%). And only the 5% of attended patients had suicide or attempted suicide as family psychiatric history. Our study confirms the obtained results in others publications in relation to the existence of middle-aged women's bigger attempted suicide frequency and a higher frecuency of associated psychiatric pathology.

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