Identifier: TFG:2725
Authors: Orta García, Lucía
Abstract:
Suicide is an important public health problem given all the negative impact it brings about. This is the reason why prevention is the most efficient treatment. Killing oneself is widely deemed taboo and this fact prevents it from being dealt with properly, since the stigma discourages people from seeking help. The aim of this paper is to detect, by means of a quantitative methodology, suicidal ideation in Tarragonas’s population. Surveys have been carried out, which show the risk factors under scrutiny in the main body of this study and the Paykel suicidal ideation scale in order to get to know the suicidal risk of the sample. Subsequently, analyses have been made for casting some light upon the existing associations between the risk factors and the suicidal risk itself in Tarragona’s population. And finally, another purpose in mind is to draw up a prevention primary health care guide based on the collected data. The results were obtanided from 307 surveys carried out with a sample of N= 314 and a total of 7 lost cases. The composition of the sample was 144 men (46,91%) and 163 women (53,09%). It was observed that the variable age and marital status have a significance (p) of less than 0,05, while the variable sex, educational level and job occupation have a significance greater than 0,05. Finally, the conclusions drawn were that age and marital status are related to the suicide risk of the inhabitants of Tarragona, while sex, educational level and job occupation do not.
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