@article{ref1,
title="Suicidal behavior in adolescents. risk factors (bibliography review and descriptive-analytical study)",
journal="Vertex: Revista Argentina de Psiquiatria",
year="2003",
author="Vairo, Maria Carolina and Ruiz, Montserrat and Blanco, Maria Florencia and Matusevich, Daniel and Finkelsztein, Carlos",
volume="14",
number="53",
pages="179-189",
abstract="In the United States suicide is the third cause of death among adolescents. Suicidal behavior has increased a hundred percent over the last three decades; it is one of the most frequent psychiatric emergencies and the first cause of admission among inpatients between 15 and 24 years. OBJECTIVE: This paper is divided in two parts. The first one is made up of a review about risk factors for suicidal behavior in adolescents. The objective of the second part study is to estimate the frequency of risk factors for suicidal behavior in a sample of inpatients and to correlate them with high lethality suicidal attempts. METHOD: This is a retrospective, observational, descriptive, analytic transversal study based on information from 23 medical records. Variables were processed by bivariated analysis; relative risk was obtained considering high lethality suicidal attempt as dependent variable. RESULTS: Statistically significant relationships were found between high lethality suicidal attempt and no Axe II diagnosis and with the appearance of hopelessness. DISCUSSION: Suicidal attempts in adolescents with an Axe II diagnosis could be more related to self-harming than to a wish to die. Hopelessness can be considered an independent variable that determines the lethality of the suicidal attempt.<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0327-6139",
doi="10.1267/science.040579197",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1267/science.040579197"
}