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Suicide: a preventable phenomenon in adolescents

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dc.contributor.authorJardim, Maria Helena de Agrela Gonçalves
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Rita Baptista
dc.contributor.authorSilva Júnior, Geraldo Bezerra da
dc.contributor.authorCaldas, José Peixoto
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Zélia
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Isa Baptista
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T10:59:59Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T10:59:59Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe profound changes in environmental, ecological, socio-cultural, ideologi cal and familiar materials in the last decades, confront adolescents with situa tions of hostility often generators of mental disorders in particular suicide risk. These evidences advocate the imperious need to promote mental health and balance of individual/social citizens, particularly the younger ones. In this context, the author developed a cross-sectional study, correlational and infe rential statistics, whose aim is to “evaluate the level of suicidal risk of young students from 12 to 18 years of the Autonomous Region of Madeira Island (RAM), Portugal”. The representative sample is probabilistic and stratified, composed of 1557 adolescents of both genders, attending basic and secondary schools in the municipality of RAM whose average age is 15.2. The selected measuring instrument was the suicide risk scale of Stork which showed high internal consistency (Alfa de Cronbach = 0.91) and good reliability. Most youngsters show no suicidal risk (67.7). However, 16.8% of young people should be the subject of concern, as 10.1% reveal weak risk, 4.0% showed im portant suicidal risk and 2.7% suicidal risk is extremely important. There is an association between suicidal risk (p = 0.000) gender and age groups (p = 0.000), being the highest rates in the 15 to 18 age group. As schooling level in creases, the risk of suicide, on the basis of the number of failures, being most evident in those that failed once. Parents being married or not also influences the manifestation of suicidal risk (p = 0.003), being most evident in young people whose parents are not married. The fact that the adolescents deal or dealt with some disease (p = 0.038), drink or have drunk alcohol (p = 0.003) as well as not socializing with colleagues (p = 0.000); has significant influence on the suicidal risk. In the same way, taking or have taken drugs (p = 0.000) influence the suicide risk. These results are a contribution in the statistics field of action. To study the suicide risk is an incentive to the scientific community for future research and the development of strategic support programs with specific interventions to promote the mental health of young people and social and educational policies.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationJardim, M. H. D. A. G., Silva, R. B., Silva Júnior, G. B., Caldas, J. P., Santos, Z., & Silva, I. B. (2017). Suicide: a preventable phenomenon in adolescents. Psychology, 8(7), 1008-1018. DOI: 10.4236/psych.2017.87066pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.4236/psych.2017.87066pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4242
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherScientific Research Publishingpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectSuicidal riskpt_PT
dc.subjectSuicidal ideationpt_PT
dc.subjectSuicidept_PT
dc.subjectTeenspt_PT
dc.subjectAdolescentspt_PT
dc.subjectCrisispt_PT
dc.subjectYouthspt_PT
dc.subjectSuicidal Risk Scale of Storkpt_PT
dc.subject.pt_PT
dc.subjectEscola Superior de Saúdept_PT
dc.titleSuicide: a preventable phenomenon in adolescentspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage1018pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue07pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage1008pt_PT
oaire.citation.titlePsychologypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume08pt_PT
person.familyNameGonçalves Jardim
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person.givenNameMaria Helena de Agrela
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