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Risk and Protective Factors in Ecuadorian Adolescent Survivors of Suicide

Suicide is one of the main causes of death among the adolescent population, which is why it is considered an important mental-health problem. In addition to this situation, for each suicide, the group of people who survive it (known as suicide survivors) can present serious emotional affectations, b...

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Autores principales: Bahamón, Marly Johana, Javela, José Julián, Vinaccia, Stefano, Matar-Khalil, Shadye, Cabezas-Corcione, Andrés, Cuesta, Evelyn Esther
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36980107
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10030549
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author Bahamón, Marly Johana
Javela, José Julián
Vinaccia, Stefano
Matar-Khalil, Shadye
Cabezas-Corcione, Andrés
Cuesta, Evelyn Esther
author_facet Bahamón, Marly Johana
Javela, José Julián
Vinaccia, Stefano
Matar-Khalil, Shadye
Cabezas-Corcione, Andrés
Cuesta, Evelyn Esther
author_sort Bahamón, Marly Johana
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description Suicide is one of the main causes of death among the adolescent population, which is why it is considered an important mental-health problem. In addition to this situation, for each suicide, the group of people who survive it (known as suicide survivors) can present serious emotional affectations, becoming a population at risk for this problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of suicide-survivor status on risk factors and protective factors for suicide. A total of 440 adolescents with a mean age of 15.78 (SD = 1.74) participated, who were divided according to survivor status, identified as the SV group (79 cases), and non-survivors, identified as the NSV group—adolescents that did not have experience or contact with a suicide attempt (361 cases). A questionnaire of sociodemographic characterization and risk conditions, the Alexian Brother Urge to Self-Injure (ABUSI), the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and the Cognitive and Affective Empathy Test (TECA) were applied. Descriptive statistics, mean difference for independent samples, contingency tables, X2 statistic, Fisher’s exact statistic, and Cohen’s d coefficient were used. The results show significant differences between SV and NSV participants in risk and protective factors regarding the presence of a greater adoption of perspective and emotional understanding. On the other hand, NSV adolescents presented higher scores of perceived social supports regarding risk factors, and there was a higher proportion of a history of suicide attempt, severity/hospitalization, impulse to self-harm, and level of suicidal risk in the SV group. The need to incorporate forms of suicide prevention with the survivor population is discussed, increasing the possibilities of postvention.
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spelling pubmed-100473422023-03-29 Risk and Protective Factors in Ecuadorian Adolescent Survivors of Suicide Bahamón, Marly Johana Javela, José Julián Vinaccia, Stefano Matar-Khalil, Shadye Cabezas-Corcione, Andrés Cuesta, Evelyn Esther Children (Basel) Article Suicide is one of the main causes of death among the adolescent population, which is why it is considered an important mental-health problem. In addition to this situation, for each suicide, the group of people who survive it (known as suicide survivors) can present serious emotional affectations, becoming a population at risk for this problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of suicide-survivor status on risk factors and protective factors for suicide. A total of 440 adolescents with a mean age of 15.78 (SD = 1.74) participated, who were divided according to survivor status, identified as the SV group (79 cases), and non-survivors, identified as the NSV group—adolescents that did not have experience or contact with a suicide attempt (361 cases). A questionnaire of sociodemographic characterization and risk conditions, the Alexian Brother Urge to Self-Injure (ABUSI), the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and the Cognitive and Affective Empathy Test (TECA) were applied. Descriptive statistics, mean difference for independent samples, contingency tables, X2 statistic, Fisher’s exact statistic, and Cohen’s d coefficient were used. The results show significant differences between SV and NSV participants in risk and protective factors regarding the presence of a greater adoption of perspective and emotional understanding. On the other hand, NSV adolescents presented higher scores of perceived social supports regarding risk factors, and there was a higher proportion of a history of suicide attempt, severity/hospitalization, impulse to self-harm, and level of suicidal risk in the SV group. The need to incorporate forms of suicide prevention with the survivor population is discussed, increasing the possibilities of postvention. MDPI 2023-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10047342/ /pubmed/36980107 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10030549 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Risk and Protective Factors in Ecuadorian Adolescent Survivors of Suicide
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36980107
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10030549
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