TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Socio-demographic and psychopathological analysis of child and adolescent attempted suicides
JO  - Vertex: Revista Argentina de Psiquiatria
A1  - Bella, Mónica Edith
A1  - Fernandez, Alicia Ruth
A1  - Acevedo, Gabriel
A1  - Willington, Jose M.
SP  - 10
EP  - 16
VL  - 19
IS  - 78
N2  - OBJECTIVE: to analyze socio-demographic and psychopathological factors affecting attempted suicides by youths admitted to the Hospital de Niños de Córdoba (Argentina). METHODS: prospective study based on clinical interviews and tests conducted on 80% of the patients admitted to the hospital in 2006. The significance level established for statistical comparisons was 0.05. RESULTS: 70% of the patient were female and 30% were male, the latter having a lower mean age than the female group (p0.001). The most common type of autoagression was the ingestion of medicines (87%). The most significant precedents in the psychopatological histories were: previous attempted suicides and conduct disorders (p0.002); 79% of them were not under treatment. Diagnoses at the moment of admission were: Mood Disorder (74%) and Disocial Disorder (74%). CONCLUSIONS: the main characteristics of this group are previous attempted suicides and psychopathological conditions which could have been diagnosed and treated previously.<p />  <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 0327-6139
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -