@article{ref1,
title="Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon",
journal="Cadernos de Saude Publica",
year="2006",
author="Minayo, Maria Cecília de Souza and Cavalcante, Fatima Goncalves and Souza, Edinilsa Ramos de",
volume="22",
number="8",
pages="1587-1596",
abstract="The authors present a methodological proposal for studying suicide and suicide attempts from a combined socio-anthropological, epidemiological, and psychosocial perspective. This interdisciplinary and complex research model simultaneously examined individual, socioeconomic, historical/cultural, and population data as few studies have succeeded to date. Considering that the present study was conducted in a specific social reality, the authors created a methodological approach to comprehend the effects of a crisis in an industrial restructuring process in a mining company town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, that was associated with unusually high suicide rates. Since it referred to a small geographic area (with only 100,000 inhabitants), the research is considered an ideal case study. The authors created different strategies to trace the local epidemiological profile, adapted a psychosocial autopsy technique to elucidate suicide cases and a psychosocial harm assessment technique to comprehend suicide attempts, and conducted a local analysis of the socio-cultural context. The methods proposed here (with advantages and limitations) proved productive for elucidating the study hypothesis.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0102-311X",
doi="10.1590/S0102-311X2006000800007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X2006000800007"
}