Citation

Madariaga A C, Ulloa D O, Gómez V AG, Iriondo C P, Alvarado M R. J. Neuroeuropsychiatry (Santiago, Chile) 2016; 54(3): 250-258.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Chile)

DOI

10.4067/S0717-92272016000300009

PMID

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: It presents the update of an epidemiologic descriptive study of deaths by suicide that took place in the Tarapacá region, Chile. The study encompasses almost a quarter of a century, between the years 1990 and 2013, and brings interesting information with respect to the tendencies of the phenomenon along an extensive period of time.

METHOD: A retrospective epidemiologic descriptive study of type transvensal of deaths classified as violent in the autopsy protocols of the Servicio Médico Legal of the city of Iquique and the medical death certificate.

RESULTS: In a total of 565 cases, a general rate of suicide for this period of 9,18 for 100.000 hab has been noted, with variations of the annual rates between 4, 95 in the year 1995 and 13, 97 in the year 1999. It was observed that suicide was more frequent between the ages 20 and 44 years, with a relation men-women of 5,3:1.

CONCLUSIONS: The previous study (2010) confirmes a tendency to the stabilization of the increasing rates observed in the past decade. In figures this rate was somehow inferior to the general rate of suicide of the country in the year 2011 (13,3 for 100.00 hab.), but it doubled the registered rates in the 90’s.

Language: es

Keywords

Epidemiology; Suicide; Suicidio; Legal medicine; Epidemiología; Médico legal