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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Perfil psicossocial dos pacientes suicidas atendidos na emergência de um hospital escola / Psychosocial profile of suicidal patients attended in a teaching hospital emergency.

Flosi, Vítor Giacomini 07 June 2006 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T12:51:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 vitorgiacominiflosi_dissert.pdf: 403974 bytes, checksum: 58e3ff734a5b2f087e3a861db334258c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-07 / Introduction: Suicide is self-infringed intentional death. The prevalence of suicidal rates varies from culture to culture and from time to time in the same culture. A growing tendency for female, adolescent and young adult has been observed. The current study attempts to describe the psychosocial profile of 40 patients attended in HB-FAMERP Hospital casualty due to suicide attempts. Method: A combination of measures was used while patients were in hospital. The Attempting Suicide Questionnaire, the Hamilton Depression Scale (Ham-D), the Beck Scale for Suicidal Intention (BSI), Two-question Questionnaire and the Goldberg Scale for Depression. Results: Results demonstrated that the male proportion was 37,5% and the female proportion was 62,5%. Self-poisoning was the most used method (95%): 50,3% by psychotropic drugs and 27,7% by pesticides. The average score for male and female was 9,86 (BSI) and 18,8 (Ham-D), and 15 (BSI) and 28,36 (Ham-D), respectively. Patients who had no history of previous suicide attempts were 52,5%. Affective Disorders with depressive episode were identified as diagnostic hypothesis in 87,5% of sample, in which 54,3% was considered grave, 25,7% considered moderate, and 20% tenuous. Family income was lower than 3 minimum wages for 73,5% and per capita family income was up to a minimum salary for 87,5% of the total. Conclusions: Patients are mainly young women, people from working class and with low intent. Self-poisoning is the commonest method. Affective Disorder is the usual diagnosis and most patients presented depression symptoms. / Introdução: Suicídio é a morte intencional auto-infringida. A prevalência das taxas de suicídio é variável em diferentes culturas e varia com o tempo numa mesma cultura. Tem-se observado consistente tendência de aumento da proporção feminina, adolescente e adulto jovem. O presente estudo pretende descrever o perfil psicossocial de 40 pacientes atendidos na emergência do HB-FAMERP devido à tentativa de suicídio. Casuística: Com os pacientes ainda internados os seguintes instrumentos foram aplicados: Questionário de Tentativa de Suicídio (QTS), Escala de Hamilton para Depressão (HamD), Escala de Intencionalidade Suicida de Beck (BSI), Teste das Duas Questões e Escala de Goldberg para depressão. Resultados: Dos 40 casos 37,5% foram do sexo masculino e 62,5% do sexo feminino. O auto-envenenamento foi o método mais utilizado (95%), desses 50,3% por medicação psicotrópica e 27,7% por pesticidas. As pontuações médias para os sexos masculino e feminino foram 9,86 (BSI) e 18,8 (Ham-D), e 15 (BSI) e 28,36 (Ham-D) respectivamente. 52,5% dos pacientes não haviam tentado suicídio anteriormente. 87,5% da amostra tiveram como hipótese diagnóstica Transtorno Afetivo com episódio depressivo, sendo 54,3%% considerados graves, 25,7% moderadas e 20% leves. 73,5% tinham renda familiar inferior a 3 salários mínimos e 87,5% renda familiar per capita até 1 salário. Conclusão: Os pacientes são predominantemente mulheres jovens, de classe socioeconômica baixa, com baixa intencionalidade e auto-envenenamento é o método preferencial. Transtorno Afetivo foi o diagnóstico mais encontrado e a maioria dos pacientes revelou sintomas de depressão.

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