TY - JOUR
PY - 2019//
TI - Circumstances involving female suicide: a psychosocial autopsy
JO - Online Brazilian journal of nursing
A1 - Dantas, E.S.O.
A1 - Guimarães, J.
SP - 103
EP - 105
VL - 16
IS -
N2 - AIM: To analyze the psychosocial context of the moments that preceded death by suicide of women in a municipality of Rio Grande do Norte.
METHOD: This is a study of the psychosocial autopsy type, using a qualitative approach, developed in a municipality of Rio Grande do Norte that presents a strong history involving suicide. The collection of necropsy reports was carried out at the Technical Institute of Expertise and then in-depth interviews were carried out with twelve relatives of suicidal women, from the semistructured interview script for psychosocial autopsies; the analysis of the data took place through the Thematic Content Analysis. Preliminary results: The suicides studied presented characteristics very close to what is already known in the literature; it was verified the presence of mental disorders, marital conflicts, emotional dependence and gender violence as strong predictors of female suicide acts. © 2019. Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing. All Rights Reserved.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1676-4285 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.17665/1676-4285.20176161 ID - ref1 ER -