Características psicodemográficas de los paciente atendidos por intento de suicidio en un hospital de tercer nivel de la ciudad de Santa Marta (Colombia)

Abstract

A transversal descriptive study was made to 13 of the 24 patients who went to the Emergency room in the Central Hospital «Julio Méndez Barreneche» in Santa Marta city with suicide attempt diagnose. Previous verbal acceptation consent was applied to four measure instruments in four sessions: An interview designed by the authors who collect social demographic data, the Orientation Suicide Inventory (OSI 30), Auto applied scale for depression of Zung Conde and Scale ¿How is your Family?. The profile found in this study points that the majority of the people who try it, regardless of the sex, are people under 30, single, unemployed, with a low economic and educative level; 38% have had 2 previous intents of which 80% are female. The intents are ingesting medicinal substances and insecticides. Most of the people presented a high punctuation on suicide ideas, which means this population is to be paid a lot of attention to.