Introduction:

Suicide attempt is an extreme demonstration of violence, for being against oneself, it is in expansion around the world and in Cuba.

Objective:

To characterize suicide attempt in adolescence, socio-demographic aspects, risk factors associated to attempt, personals and family antecedent of precedent suicide attempt.

Methods:

It was descriptive and cross sectional study, the target group was comprised by 81 adolescents, the sample was not probabilistic and consisted of 46 adolescents. The tests used were inquiry for the control and type of the suicide behavior, individual interview and family interview. Apply empiric and statistic method and data was process with Word XP, table and graph make with Excel XP.

Results:

Among the main results were that the most frequent ages were between 15 and 19 years, school level high school, marital status single and they weren’t working. Alcoholism and imitation were the community risk factors and the individual risk factors were couple breaking, depression and self-characteristic.

Discussion:

Criteria coincidences with other studies related to the way of committing suicide and its purpose were found.

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