Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-06-25T12:25:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Karine Viana Maciel.pdf: 2535958 bytes, checksum: 49b9572829afd97dff02ab49891de5f4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-25T12:25:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Karine Viana Maciel.pdf: 2535958 bytes, checksum: 49b9572829afd97dff02ab49891de5f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Nenhuma / Esta dissertação é composta por dois artigos, um de revisão sistemática da literatura e um empírico. A pesquisa desenvolvida teve como foco de investigação as tentativas de suicídio realizadas a partir do uso do fogo. No estudo I, realizou-se uma revisão sistemática da literatura nacional e internacional sobre a temática das tentativas de suicídio através de queimaduras autoinfligidas, no período de 2007-2012, nas bases de dados Academic Search Premier, MEDLINE/Pubmed, Lilacs e Scielo. Encontrou-se 23 artigos, a maioria de natureza quantitativa e que foram publicados em diferentes revistas da área da saúde e por diferentes profissionais. Os resultados apontam que este acontecimento ocorre com maior freqüência nos países subdesenvolvidos, em que as taxas para o suicídio consumado apresentam-se maiores para o sexo masculino e, nos casos de tentativas de suicídio, a grande maioria dos sujeitos é do sexo feminino. Os estudos também averiguaram que as pessoas que tentavam suicídio pelo fogo apresentavam baixo nível de escolaridade, deram na maioria adultos jovens e tinham histórico psiquiátrico e/ou abuso de drogas e dificuldades de relacionamento social e familiar. Já no estudo II, o objetivo foi compreender os significados da escolha do fogo como um dispositivo para a tentativa de suicídio e identificar os aspectos emocionais que permeiam a vida desses indivíduos diante do trauma da queimadura. Participaram do estudo oito mulheres que haviam sofrido queimaduras autoinfligidas há pelo menos um ano e meio e que estavam em acompanhamento médico ambulatorial para reparação das cicatrizes da queimadura em um hospital de Porto Alegre. Todas as participantes responderam a uma entrevista semiestruturada que investigava a história de vida das participantes, o momento de atear-se fogo, a experiência da queimadura, seu atual contexto de vida, os sentimentos após o ato, a reinserção social e como a queimadura tem afetado no seu dia a dia e sua saúde psíquica e física. Além disso, também foi aplicado um questionário de dados sociodemográficos e clínicos. A idade das mesmas variou entre 24 e 55 anos, cinco delas relataram serem casadas/viver junto, duas se separaram após a ocorrência da queimadura e uma delas era viúva. A maioria das participantes colocou fogo em si mesmo num ato impulsivo, em que elas não tinham conhecimento sobre as cicatrizes deixadas pela queimadura e admitiram tê-lo feito para intenção de chamar a atenção de algum familiar próximo a elas. Após o ato, surgiram dificuldades relacionadas à reinserção social, enfrentamento com o olhar de estranhamento do outro e com o seu próprio, diante de uma nova imagem. Concluiu-se que é de extrema importância que se invista em programas de informação e prevenção a fim de evitar que novos casos de queimaduras autoinfligidas venham a ocorrer, causando consequências devastadoras destes sujeitos. / This dissertation consists in two articles, a systematic review of the literature and an empirical. The conducted survey focused on research suicide attempts made from the use of fire. The study 1 carried out a systematic review of national and international literature on the topic of suicide attempts by self-inflicted burns in the period 2007-2012, the databases Academic Search Premier, MEDLINE / PubMed, Lilacs and Scielo. It was found 23 articles, most quantitative and which were published in various journals in the area of health and by different professionals. The results show that this event occurs more frequently in developing countries, where the rates for suicide present higher for males, and in cases of attempted suicide, the vast majority of subjects were female. The studies also found out that people who had attempted suicide by fire had low level of education achievement, were mostly young adults and had psychiatric history and/or substance abuse and difficulties on social and family relationships. In the study 2, the aim was to understand the meanings of the choice of fire as a device for the suicide attempt and identify the emotional aspects that permeate the lives of these individuals before the burn trauma. The study included eight women who had suffered self-inflicted burns for at least a year and a half and were under medical supervision for outpatient repair of burn scars at a hospital in Porto Alegre. All participants completed a semi structured interview that was investigating the life history of the participants, the time to fire themselves, experience the burn, their current life context, the feelings after the act, social reintegration and how the burn has affected in their daily lives and their mental and physical health. In addition, a questionnaire was administered to sociodemographic and clinical data. The age of them ranged between 24 and 55 years old, five of them reported being married/living together, two got divorced after the burn occurrence and one was widowed. Most participants set fire to themselves in an impulsive act, in which they had no knowledge about the scars left by burns and admitted having done so with the intention of calling a close relative’s attention. After the act, there were difficulties related to social reintegration, coping with the look of estrangement from the other and with their own, before a new image. It was concluded that it is extremely important to invest in prevention and information programs to avoid the occurrence of new cases of self-inflicted burns that cause devastating consequences in these people.

Burn injuries are associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Intentional burn injuries are not well understood, and warrant study to improve adjustment and outcomes. The present study examined group differences between intentional and unintentional burn injuries, comparing individuals with self-inflicted (SIB; n=109) and other-inflicted (OIB; n=109) burns to an unintentional burn (UB) group. Compared to UB, those with intentional (SIB, OIB) burn injuries were more likely to be young, female, unmarried, unemployed, abuse substances, and have positive alcohol/drug screens at hospital admission. Individuals with intentional burns report more psychological distress, lower quality of life in some areas, and lower life satisfaction. When SIB and OIB were examined individually, OIB were more likely to be African American compared to SIB and UB. OIB also had more anxiety and paranoia than UB. SIB was more likely than OIB and UB to have had medical problems or psychiatric disorders and treatment prior to the burn injury. Those with SIB were 3 times more likely than UB to die in the hospital even after controlling for age, severity of burn, and inhalation injuries. Moreover, the SIB group had high rates of suicidal ideation at discharge and follow-up. Treatment implications for burn treatment providers were discussed.