Citation

Santos N, Sampaio D, Narciso I, Cruz D, Costa C, Filipe L. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 56.

Affiliation

Hospital de Santa Maria - Nucleo de Estudos do Suicídio, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-035 Lisboa, Portugal. dianinha.cruz@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Facultas Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis - Danube Symposion of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16963942

Abstract

Youngsters with suicidal ideation (SI) and/or suicide attempts (SA) report different reasons for their gestures and thoughts, as well as their concepts of death. The present study was conducted with a sample of youngsters from both sexes with ages between 11 and 21 years old, who sought help at "Nucleo de Estudos do Suici­dio" of Psychiatry Department of "Hospital de Santa Maria", from the year 2000 until 2005 inclusive. The main purposes of this study were: a) to characterize epidemiologically this sample; and b) to assess and analyse the reasons for SI and/or SA and the concepts of death, reported by the youngsters in the first assessment interview. The results show that the majority of the young people who attend NES are female and attempt suicide at home, with relatives/friends nearby, the most frequent method being medicinal intoxication. The representations of suicide were mostly of giving up and running away, from life as it is lived. The most frequent explanations given for the gesture are mixed, gathering both external and internal precipitating events.

Language: en