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Acta Médica del Centro
On-line version ISSN 2709-7927
Abstract
FERNANDEZ ESPERANZA, Helena; LLANES GARCIA, Llanuris and HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ, Marta Amelia. Attitudes toward negative emotions in parents of adolescents with suicidal intent. Acta méd centro [online]. 2022, vol.16, n.2, pp. 292-300. Epub June 30, 2022. ISSN 2709-7927.
Introduction:
Suicide attempts have many meanings and whatever their degree of lethality, special attention should be paid to them.
Objective:
to characterize the attitude towards negative emotions in parents of adolescents with suicide attempt in the period from January 2018 to December 2019 at the “XX Aniversario” Polyclinic.
Methods:
descriptive cross-sectional study. Population: 43 families and sample: 15 parents of adolescents with suicide attempt. Several variables were studied: level of education, history of suicide attempt and emotions, etc. Empirical methods were used: participatory observation, documentary analysis, parent questionnaire, in-depth interviews and diagnostic family interviews, and methodological triangulation: indirect and direct methods and the Fredrickson emotions scale.
Results:
there was a predominance of completed high school education, history of suicide attempt, negative emotions (worry, anger and fear), frequency almost always and with much or enough intensity motivated by: difficulties related to children, family and partner, and the use of inappropriate attitudes: desire to die and lack of control.
Conclusions:
health care workers should take action to turn the situation around or mitigate the risk factors.
Keywords : attitudes in parents; negative emotions; suicide attempt; adolescent.