Caracterización del acto suicida en el servicio médico legal de Concepción, Chile entre 2011-2015
Journal Title: Revista ANACEM - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Suicide can be defined as the act where the person finish their life intentionally. It is currently an increasing worldwide problematic. The objective is to characterize the suicide act according to the autopsies reports performed by the Legal Medical Service (SML) Concepción, during the period 2011-2015 Material and method: We released a retros-pective, descriptive and transversal study with the autopsies reports performed by the SML Concepción described as suicide, between 2011–2015. We used variables such as: gender, age, procedence, place of ocurrence, marital state, occupation, comorbidities, death cause, blood alcohol concentration, toxicological results, arrival at a care center, previus attempts and warning letter. Data was analized and tabulated using Microsoft Excel. The study was previusly approved by an ethic committee. Results: From the total autopsies released, 12.6% were suicides (511), from which 83.3% were men, 49.9% were married, 83.6% were from Concepcion, 75% of the suicides occurred at home, 88.8% were asphyxiation by hanging, 57.3% had a negative result of alcohol in blood and 67.7% had a negative toxicological test, 5.1% arrived at a care center. Discussion: The most prevalent variables of our study were age 20-29, male gender, single marital status and occupation in technical employment. The most frequent method and place were hanging and domicile respectively. We observed a higher prevalence of alcohol intoxication than international studies. The most prevalent substance in the toxicological analyzes was cocaine. It is necessary to expand the research in our environment by analyzing risk factors and designing new prevention strategies
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Carolina Concha, Esteban Arévalo, Sebastián Droguett, Ignacio Chamorro, Heidi Schuffeneger, Juan Cartes
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