Profile of methods in suicide attempts: trends and implications for prevention. Jujuy, northwestern of Argentina
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methods, suicide, attempted, sex, age, preventionAbstract
This article reports the first description of the methods profile in suicide attempts conducted up to date in Jujuy (Argentina), and a discussion of its implications for prevention. The study was epidemiological and transversal. Data set include all suicide attempts (n = 481) psychologically assisted during two biennia at the Emergency Service of the main hospital. Using a single method was prevalent (84%) in all age ranges and in both sexes, but combining methods it is characterized by males (p< .05). Self-poisoning by medications (39.8%) and self-harm by cuts (27.3%) were the most frequent in both sexes. Non-violent methods were prevalent in both sexes, although males tended to use more violent and potentially more lethal methods. Some of the identified methods might be prevented simply by limiting their availability (e.g., medications, especially psychotropic, alcoholic beverages, jumping sites, firearms). Instead, other methods (e.g., hanging, gases, cleaning products, etc.) are difficult to be restricted.
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Beautrais, A. L. (2003). Suicide and serious suicide attempts in youth: A multiple-group comparison study. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(6), 1093-1099. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.6.1093
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Dombrovski, A. Y., Clark, L., Siegle, G. J., Butters, M. A., Ichikawa, N., Sahakian, B., & Szanto, K. (2010). Reward/punishment reversal learning in older suicide attempters. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 167(6), 699-707. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09030407
Grasso, L. (1999). Introducción a la estadística en ciencias sociales y del comportamiento. Córdoba: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Hawton, K., Simkin, S., & Fagg, J. (1997). Deliberate self-harm in alcohol and drug misusers: Patient characteristics and patterns of clinical care. Drug and Alcohol Review, 16(2), 123-129. doi: 10.1080/09595239700186411
Huang, Y. C., Wu, Y. W., Chen, C. K., & Wang, L. J. (2014). Methods of suicide predict the risks and method-switching of subsequent suicide attempts: A community cohort study in Taiwan. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 10, 711-718. doi: 10.2147%2FNDT.S61965
Jollant, F., Bellivier, F., Leboyer, M., Astruc, B., Torres, S., Verdier, R., … Courtet P. (2005). Impaired decision making in suicide attempters. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(2), 304-310. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.162.2.304
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Lilley, R., Owens, D., Horrocks, J., House, A., Noble, R., Bergen, H., … Kapur N. (2008). Hospital care and repetition following self-harm: Multicentre comparison of self-poisoning and self-injury. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 192(6), 440-445. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.043380
López Steinmetz, L. C. (2015). Marcadores temporales de riesgo supuesto en casos asistidos psicológicamente en un Servicio de Guardia: descripción de sus distribuciones y confrontación de la hipótesis de asociación entre temporalidad y conductas suicidas. Investigaciones en Psicología, 20(2), 79-93.
López Steinmetz, L. C. (2017a). Caracterización de riesgo diferencial-demográfico en urgencias psicológicas: intento de suicidio y otros motivos de consulta. Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 9(1), 44-53.
López Steinmetz, L. C. (2017b). Factores psicopatológicos de riesgo en intentos de suicidio. Ciencias Psicológicas, 11(1), 89-100. doi: 10.22235/cp.v11i2.1350
López Steinmetz L. C. (n.d.). Coyunturas desencadenantes de urgencias suicidas: un enfoque psicoanalítico y epidemiológico (Tesis de Doctorado). Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Psicología.
Mateos Rodríguez, A. A., Huerta Arroyo, A., & Benito Vellisca, M. A. (2007). Características epidemiológicas del intento autolítico por fármacos. Emergencias, 19(5), 251-254.
Miller, M., Hempstead, K., Nguyen, T., Barber, C., Rosenberg-Wohl, S., & Azrael, D. (2013). Method choice in nonfatal self-harm as a predictor of subsequent episodes of self-harm and suicide: Implications for clinical practice. American Journal of Public Health, 103(6), e61-e68. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301326
Milner, A., Witt, K., Maheen, H., & LaMontagne, A. D. (2017). Access to means of suicide, occupation and the risk of suicide: A national study over 12 years of coronial data. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1), 125. doi: 10.1186/s12888-017-1288-0
Móscicki, E. K. (1994). Gender differences in completed and attempted suicides. Annals of Epidemiology, 4(2), 152-158. doi: 10.1016/1047-2797(94)90062-0
Norström, T., & Rossow, I. (2016). Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for suicidal behavior: A systematic review of associations at the individual and at the population level. Archives of Suicide Research, 20(4), 489-506. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2016.1158678
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Owens, D., Kelley, R., Munyombwe, T., Bergen, H., Hawton, K., Cooper, J., … Kapur, N. (2015). Switching methods of self-harm at repeat episodes: Findings from a multicentre cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 180, 44-51. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.03.051
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Skegg, K., & Herbison, P. (2009). Effect of restricting access to a suicide jumping site. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 43(6), 498-502. doi: 10.1080/00048670902873698
Too, L. S., Spittal, M. J., Bugeja, L., McClure, L., & Milner, A. (2016). Individual and community factors for railway suicide: A matched case-control study in Victoria, Australia. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51(6), 849-856. doi: 10.1007/s00127-016-1212-9
Wilcox, H. C., Conner, K. R., & Caine, E. D. (2004). Association of alcohol and drug use disorders and completed suicide: An empirical review of cohort studies. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 76, S11-S19. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2004.08.003
World Health Organization (1994). Chapter XX. External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98). Intentional self harm (X60-X84). En: WHO, Pocket Guide to the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders (pp. 68-70). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
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López Steinmetz, L. C. (2019). Profile of methods in suicide attempts: trends and implications for prevention. Jujuy, northwestern of Argentina. Ciencias Psicológicas, 13(2), 197–208. https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v13i2.1872
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