Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo

Background: Worldwide, suicide is the third cause of death among adolescents. Aim: To determine the socio-demographic context and clinical characteristics of children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal behavior in a general hospital. Material and Methods: Between 2007 and 2009, we evaluated 4...

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Autores principales:	Inzunza C,Carla, Navia G,Felipe, Catalán,Pamela, Brehme,Carla, Ventura,Tamara
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2012
Materias:	Adolescent Poisoning Suicide, attempted
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720120006000092014-03-10Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivoInzunza C,CarlaNavia G,FelipeCatalán,PamelaBrehme,CarlaVentura,Tamara Adolescent Poisoning Suicide, attempted Background: Worldwide, suicide is the third cause of death among adolescents. Aim: To determine the socio-demographic context and clinical characteristics of children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal behavior in a general hospital. Material and Methods: Between 2007 and 2009, we evaluated 47 patients with a mean age of 15.3 years (87% women) admitted for suicidal behavior at the Clinical Hospital of the Catholic University of Chile. Demographic data of the participants were registered. Clinical interviews were done by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Results: Fifty seven percent of patients lived with both parents. Fifty one percent had previous suicide attempts and 68% had a previous psychiatric treatment. The main trigger was a conflict with parents in 66%. The psychiatric diagnoses were major depressive episode in 74.5% and pathological development of personality in 43%. All suicide attempts were with drugs and 6.4% were associated with cuts. Seventeen percent of attempts were classified as medically serious and they were more common in older age groups. Non severe attempts were observed mainly in women (92.3%). Acetaminophen intake was recorded in 8.5% of cases. Admission to hospital increased in the final quarter of the year. High costs of hospitalization were observed associated to stays in high complexity units. Conclusions: The population studied shows a high incidence of prior suicidal behavior. Most of the studied patients had attempts that were not classified as serious. These occurred predominantly in women in all age ranges. Medically serious suicidal behavior is mainly observed in older adolescents.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.140 n.6 20122012-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872012000600009es10.4067/S0034-98872012000600009
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topic	Adolescent Poisoning Suicide, attempted
spellingShingle	Adolescent Poisoning Suicide, attempted Inzunza C,Carla Navia G,Felipe Catalán,Pamela Brehme,Carla Ventura,Tamara Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo
description	Background: Worldwide, suicide is the third cause of death among adolescents. Aim: To determine the socio-demographic context and clinical characteristics of children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal behavior in a general hospital. Material and Methods: Between 2007 and 2009, we evaluated 47 patients with a mean age of 15.3 years (87% women) admitted for suicidal behavior at the Clinical Hospital of the Catholic University of Chile. Demographic data of the participants were registered. Clinical interviews were done by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Results: Fifty seven percent of patients lived with both parents. Fifty one percent had previous suicide attempts and 68% had a previous psychiatric treatment. The main trigger was a conflict with parents in 66%. The psychiatric diagnoses were major depressive episode in 74.5% and pathological development of personality in 43%. All suicide attempts were with drugs and 6.4% were associated with cuts. Seventeen percent of attempts were classified as medically serious and they were more common in older age groups. Non severe attempts were observed mainly in women (92.3%). Acetaminophen intake was recorded in 8.5% of cases. Admission to hospital increased in the final quarter of the year. High costs of hospitalization were observed associated to stays in high complexity units. Conclusions: The population studied shows a high incidence of prior suicidal behavior. Most of the studied patients had attempts that were not classified as serious. These occurred predominantly in women in all age ranges. Medically serious suicidal behavior is mainly observed in older adolescents.
author	Inzunza C,Carla Navia G,Felipe Catalán,Pamela Brehme,Carla Ventura,Tamara
author_facet	Inzunza C,Carla Navia G,Felipe Catalán,Pamela Brehme,Carla Ventura,Tamara
author_sort	Inzunza C,Carla
title	Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo
title_short	Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo
title_full	Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo
title_fullStr	Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo
title_full_unstemmed	Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo
title_sort	conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: análisis descriptivo
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2012
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Conducta suicida en niños y adolescentes ingresados en un hospital general: Análisis descriptivo

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