Citation

Ferreira VRT, Trichês VJS. PSICO 2014; 45(2): 219-227.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Faculdade de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul)

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Abstract

Suicide is the act of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally, and Brazilian suicide rates, from 1980 to 2000 recorded an average of 4.9 per 100,000. This research aims to describe the profile of suicide attempts and suicide mortality from August 2010 to August 2012. The data of suicide attempts and completed suicides were obtainedfrom SINAN (Notification Information System for Diseases). The data collected indicates that the largest number of people who have attempted to commit suicide is female, between 30-39 years old, married, white, schooling from the 5th to 8th grade, factory workers living in urban areas, who committed the attempt at home by poisoning. Regarding completed suicides, cases were predominantly male, between 30-39 years old, married, white, schooling from 1st to 4th grade and/or high school, working in trade/services, in urban areas, committed in their homes by hanging.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; epidemiology; psychopathology; Suicidio; Suicídio; epidemiologia; psicopatologia