Citation

Grossi R, Vansan GA. J. Bras. Psiquiatr. 2002; 51(2): 101-111.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Instituto De Psiquiatria)

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Abstract

This work studied the temporary distribution of the mortality by suicide in the Municipal district of Maringá, PR, in the period from 1978 to 1998 and analyzed its relationship with some personal characteristics as sex and age, as well as with the method used and place of occurrence. The mortality data for suicide were collected of exams of deaths in the Legal Medical Institute and of the certificates of deaths of the Registries of Civil Registration. During the period 197 deaths by suicide happened, what corresponds to an annual medium coefficient of 4.2 suicides for 100,000 inhabitants. In the masculine sex ascending tendency of the mortality was verified by suicide the last fourteen years of the period and a higher annual medium coefficient(6.5) that in the feminine (2.1). Among the men, the mortality for suicide happened with larger and progressively ascending rates in the age groups from 20 to 29, 40 to 40 and finally in the one of 60 to 69 years, where it reached its higher value (18.5 suicides/100,000 inhabitants). Among the women the suicides prevailed with similar and significantly smaller rates than the one of the men, in the age groups of 20 to 39 years and of 70 years and above. Contrarily to the observed for the men, the largest incidence happened in youths of 20 to 29 years, with a low rate of 3.4 suicides/100,000 inhabitants. The most frequent method used by both sexes was hanging, and the place preferably used by the suicides was the own home.

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Keywords

adult; age distribution; aged; article; Brazil; death certificate; Epidemiology; female; forensic medicine; geographic distribution; human; incidence; major clinical study; male; mental health; Mental health; mortality; sex difference; suicide; Suicide