Study Educational for the Prevention of Suicidal Methods in Adolescents
Author(s):
JesÃ?ºs CuÃ?©llar Ã?Âlvarez*, JosÃ?© RamÃ?³n ValdÃ?©s Utrera, Liset Perdomo Blanco, Vivian Margarita Guerra Morales and Dunia Mercedes Ferrer Lozano
Background: The adolescent suicidal intent in the county of Villa Clara and their incidence in the municipality of Santa demand of assuming a detailed analysis to prevent suicide.
Objective: To prevent the suicidal methods educationally in adolescents.
Methods: A study of traverse descriptive type was used. The study population conformed to for 20 adolescents. The main variables were: age, sex, used methods, family operation and educational method that it was obtained starting from an applied survey and the contained data in the clinical histories of the patients.
Results: It was corroborated that the suicidal intents in the adolescence were associated with soft and hard methods where they were the ingestion of medications and the hanging.
Conclusions: In educational methods with adolescents, a dysfunction with a high total prevalence of 52,7 % prevailed with the use of soft methods from pills and the use of hard methods such as hanging.