Incidência e perfil epidemiológico de suicídios em crianças e adolescentes ocorridos no Estado do Pará, Brasil, no período de 2010 a 2013

Nathalia Oliveira Batista; Jamille Rodrigues do Carmo de Araújo; Paulo Humberto Mendes Figueiredo

doi:10.5123/S2176-62232016000400008

Authors

Nathalia Oliveira Batista Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
Jamille Rodrigues do Carmo de Araújo Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
Paulo Humberto Mendes Figueiredo Universidade Federal do Pará, Hospital Universitário João de Barros Barreto, Unidade de Diagnóstico de Meningite, Belém, Pará, Brasil. Universidade do Estado do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil. Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5123/S2176-62232016000400008

Keywords:

Suicide, Children, Adolescent, Epidemiology

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Suicide is a serious problem of global public health and is the second main cause of death among people from 15 to 29 years old. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and epidemiological profile of suicide in children and adolescents in Pará State, Brazil from 2010 to 2013. It is a transversal, descriptive and quantitative study. Data were obtained from the Department of Health Information of the Unified Health System. The results showed 135 cases of suicide in children and adolescents in the State and the Municipality of Belém is the most incident (12.5%) and cases increased 31.6% from 2010 to 2013. Most of suicides (77.8%) happened with adolescents from 15 to 19 years old, predominantly in male. The most common places of occurrence of suicides were home (58.1%), hospital (18.5%), and public road (8.9%). The main method of committing suicide was intentional self-harm by hanging. Data showed that in Pará, suicide increased substantially among children and adolescents.