Diferencias en los factores de riesgo entre la población que consulta por un intento de suicidio y la que acude por otros motivos en un servicio de urgencias de una unidad de salud mental

Identifier:  TDX:3323

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3323

Authors:  Casanova Garrigós, Georgina

Abstract:
The main objectives of this study are: 1.Assess the differences in the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and in the temporary factors among the people who went to the emergency department for a suicide attempt and those who went for other reasons. 2.Know whether there are sex differences in the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and in the temporary factors of the people who went to the emergency department for a suicide attempt. 3.Know whether there are sex differences in the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and in the temporary factors of people who went to the emergency department for reasons other than suicide attempt. 4.Find out whether there are differences between the sexes and the characteristics of the suicide attempt. A quantitative methodology has been followed, specifically a cross-sectional study, since both the attempted suicides (effect) and all the study information were collected from the emergency department documents as potential variables associated with suicide attempt (cause).To do so, two samples were selected, the people who came to the emergency department whose consultation reason was a suicide attempt (498 people) and the rest of people attended for other consultation reasons (502 people) during the same time period, from 1 January 2007 to 31 July 2014. Significant statistically differences in multiple variables have been obtained in the results among the groups. The main are: higher percentage of women, greater number of people who were married or in pairs, greater number of unemployed people, with more economic difficulties, higher percentage of people with couple problems, with minor history of mental health, lower consumption of substances, less previous psychiatric admissions and lower presence of psychotic symptoms when they were assisted.