Autolesão provocada em adolescentes: o fenômeno da ideação suicida em uma escola pública no interior do estado do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the phenomenon of self harm and its relationship with suicidal ideation in young elementary school adolescents, enrolled in a public school in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The methodological approach was quantitative, which is an exploratory, cross-sectional, descriptive study. Performed on young teenagers aged 12 to 16 years. To this end, an open questionnaire, socio-demographic, developed by the researchers in order to outline the profile of the respondents, followed by the application of the adapted version Columbia Suicide Severity Scale (C-SSRS), data collection took place between August and November 2019 in a was applied. took place in a reserved space, individually, in the same class shift as the respondents. The results showed that 46.5% of the interviewees practiced self-harm at some point in their life. Of these, 90% of those who claimed to have practiced self-harm were female. In addition, 58.1% of young people said they had thought about killing themselves. Explicit suicide attempts were estimated at 37.2%. It was concluded that the suffering processes are correlated with each other and that self-injurious behavior as well as suicidal behavior is hardly manifested in isolation, we also identified that prevention and promotion actions in the school environment should be started early as protective measures for so we avoid the incidence of new cases.