@article{ref1,
title="High prevalence of two or more suicide attempts associated with suicidal ideation and mental disease in Colombia 2016",
journal="Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría",
year="2020",
author="Aparicio Castillo, Yeison Ariel and Blandón Rodríguez, Ana María and Chaves Torres, Ninfa-Marlen",
volume="49",
number="2",
pages="96-101",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: Suicidal ideation and attempts are strongly predictive of suicide deaths. Furthermore, suicide attempts exert a financial burden of millions of dollars on society.  OBJECTIVE: To establish the factors associated with more than one suicide attempt in the Colombian population that was reported in 2016.   METHODS: A cross-sectional study of 18,763 reports entered in the database of the National Public Health Surveillance of the National Institute of Health of Colombia during 2016 was performed.   RESULTS: 11,738 (62.6%) of the total number of reports were female, the mean age was 25.0 (95% CI, 24.9-25.2) years, 46% of all cases were individuals between 10- and 20-years-old; 5,734 (30.6%) reported 2 or more suicide attempts and the prevalence of a mental disorder and persistent suicidal ideation were 48.5% and 16.4%, respectively. The factor most strongly associated with more than one suicide attempt, after adjusting for logistic regression, was persistent suicide ideation with crude OR=5.5 (95% CI, 5.0-5.9), and ORa=4.0 (95% CI, 3.6-4.3).   CONCLUSIONS: Patients with persistent suicidal ideation were 4 times more likely to have 2 or more suicide attempts. Other factors such as the use of a sharp weapon as a mechanism to perform the attempt and the history of bipolar affective disorder and/or depression were also associated with more than one suicide attempt.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0034-7450",
doi="10.1016/j.rcp.2018.07.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rcp.2018.07.001"
}