FRECUENCIA Y FACTORES DESENCADENANTES DE PACIENTES CON DIAGNÓSTICO DE INTENTO SUICIDA, INGRESADOS AL SERVICIO DE URGENCIAS ADULTOS DEL HOSPITAL REGIONAL 1° DE OCTUBRE

Abstract

This study was conducted at the Regional Hospital 1° October, in the Adult Emergency Department in period January 2009 to December 2009. The main objective was to identify the frequency of patients admitted with diagnostic of attempted suicide, and secundarily the factors that led to it, as well as the method every employee for this purpose. The importance of the study is that our hospital receives a considerable amount of psychiatric patients and the first medic contact is with ER doctor, thus having a stadistic where required by the incidence and the main factors associated help this health problem, reduce mortality and is therefore aware that demographic to have in relationship with the suicide attempt, as such as more common for such action have a starting point for further lines of Investigations in a topic little explored and great significance. It is descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional, in which the universe is shown as 100% of patients admitted for attempted suicide during the period as stipulated, we collect 79 patients, and we revised the clinic expedient of patients admitted to the hospital unit with diagnostic of attempting suicide, following criteria of 18 to 65 year, regardless of genre and have a record clinic completely unique, deleted who study were discrepancies between the data in the form of identification, no patient referred to in notes and emergency and psychiatry. The variables analyzed were divided into three main groups comprising character sociodemographic, biopsicosociales factors and method employee for the purpose of suicide. We created a data base collecting the information, and processing the information, it is done through SPSS program, and we obtained graphics and tables to explain exactly the results. Analyzing the data obtained that age group more affected by suicide attempts are found in reproductive and productive age, predominance of women with high school education, unmarried, with children, being more frequent in the weekend, in April-December, mid-afternoon and at home. Secondary to family conflicts. And the method was with overdose of benzodiazepines. We conclude that this is a major health problem public whose boom has been increasing, therefore should action measures to use to reduce suicide attempts in our population and thus mortality.