TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
JO  - Cadernos de Saude Publica
A1  - Minayo, Maria Cecília de Souza
A1  - Cavalcante, Fatima Goncalves
A1  - Souza, Edinilsa Ramos de
SP  - 1587
EP  - 1596
VL  - 22
IS  - 8
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0102-311X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X2006000800007
ID  - ref1
ER  -