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TAMAYO CORDOVI, Alitza; ELIAS MONTES, Yelenis; COTO BATISTA, Tamara  e  SANCHEZ PEREZ, Yusleidy Yanet. Risk factors associated with suicide attempt in adolescents. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. 2018-2019. Multimed [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.3  Epub 02-Maio-2021. ISSN 1028-4818.

Suicide is considered a major health problem and a true existential drama of man. In order to identify some risk factors that were associated with suicide attempts in adolescents admitted to the intensive care unit of the Provincial Pediatric Teaching General Hospital Luis Ángel Milanés Tamayo” in the period from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019, in Granma, an analytical observational case-control study was carried out that investigated the association between the suicide attempt and demographic, biological, socio-environmental and other risk factors. family related. 30 cases and 60 controls were selected. Theoretical and empirical methods were used and the Odd Ratio was calculated. In the univariate analysis, age (OR = 1,000, CI = 0.371-2.694, p = 1,000) and sex (OR = 1,000, CI = 0.334-2.991, p = 1,000) were not related to the risk of suicide attempt. The personal history of anxiety (OR = 6,000, CI = 1,668-21,582, p = 0.003) and depression (OR = 3,500, CI = 1,345-9.107, p = 0.008); relationship problems (OR = 25.375, CI = 5.218-123.391p = 0.000); school refusal (OR = 39.333, CI = 4.782-323.509, p = 0.000) and family history of depression (OR = 11.800, CI = 1.310-106.217, p = 0.007) and anxiety (OR = 14.500, CI = 2.920- 71.891, p = 0.000) contributed to the risk of suicide attempt in adolescents. The personal history of epilepsy, the family history of alcoholism and suicide in the family did not have a significant statistical relationship. The results obtained warn about the preventive possibilities that may be viable to reduce the incidence of the entity.

Palavras-chave : Risk factors; Suicide attempt; Teen.

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