2012, Number 2
Suicide attempt epidemiology in Ciego de Avila province
Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
The health national system in Cuba offers an integral attention to the problems that affect the health state of man and its family. The aim of this investigation was to characterize the epidemiologic behavior of suicide attempt in Ciego de Avila from 1990 to 2010, as well as the prognosis for 2011-2012. A retrospective longitudinal descriptive study was carried out. It was used as data source the suicide attempt information collected in the Department of Provincial Statistic of 2010 and temporal serie of suicide attempt from 1990 to 2010. It was summarized all the information through absolute frequencies and summary measures for qualitative variables and they were presented in Pictures and Graphs. Eviews program was used 4.1 for the prognosis Obtaining. Feminine sex surpassed to the masculine one and the more affected group was from 15 to 19 years old with 55 reported cases. Psychotropic substances, the hanging and the ingestion of tablets were the most frequent method. A slight tendency to the diminution on the suicidal attempt is considered according to prognosis, with rates superior to 50 that it can oscillate up to 80 according to prediction interval.REFERENCES
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