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Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents

INTRODUCTION: Suicidal behavior remains an important clinical problem and a major cause of death in youth. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical profile of adolescents with suicide attempts. METHODS: This is a retrospective descriptive study that focu...

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Autores principales: Boukhchina, R., Aissa, A., Kammoun, I., Zgueb, Y., Madouri, S., Ouali, U., Jomli, R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566311/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.700
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author Boukhchina, R.
Aissa, A.
Kammoun, I.
Zgueb, Y.
Madouri, S.
Ouali, U.
Jomli, R.
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Aissa, A.
Kammoun, I.
Zgueb, Y.
Madouri, S.
Ouali, U.
Jomli, R.
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description INTRODUCTION: Suicidal behavior remains an important clinical problem and a major cause of death in youth. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical profile of adolescents with suicide attempts. METHODS: This is a retrospective descriptive study that focused on a population of Tunisian adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years old and who were hospitalized after a suicide attempt between between January, 1st 2010 and November,15th 2018, in Razi Hospital. We used a pre-established questionnaire that explored the sociodemographic and clinical data of patients. RESULTS: Sixty adolescents were included in this study. The average age of the respondents was 14.3±2 years. The sex-ratio (m/f ) was 0, 36. The suicidal adolescent was a female (73%), single (98%), enrolled in school (66%) with school failure history (52%). Family history of suicide was reported in 8%. Fifty adolescents (83%) lived with their parents and the relationship with them was described as disturbed in 60% of them. A history of physical and sexual abuse was reported in 25% during first adolescence and 15% during second adolescence. The most frequent diagnoses were adjustment disorder with depressed mood (45%) and depression (28%). Drug ingestion was the most common mean of suicide (63%), in an impulsive way in 82% of cases. CONCLUSIONS: Development of repeated epidemiological surveys makes it possible to better understand the prevalence of suicide attempts in adolescents and to implement suicide prevention programs. DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships.
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spelling pubmed-95663112022-10-17 Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents Boukhchina, R. Aissa, A. Kammoun, I. Zgueb, Y. Madouri, S. Ouali, U. Jomli, R. Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: Suicidal behavior remains an important clinical problem and a major cause of death in youth. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical profile of adolescents with suicide attempts. METHODS: This is a retrospective descriptive study that focused on a population of Tunisian adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years old and who were hospitalized after a suicide attempt between between January, 1st 2010 and November,15th 2018, in Razi Hospital. We used a pre-established questionnaire that explored the sociodemographic and clinical data of patients. RESULTS: Sixty adolescents were included in this study. The average age of the respondents was 14.3±2 years. The sex-ratio (m/f ) was 0, 36. The suicidal adolescent was a female (73%), single (98%), enrolled in school (66%) with school failure history (52%). Family history of suicide was reported in 8%. Fifty adolescents (83%) lived with their parents and the relationship with them was described as disturbed in 60% of them. A history of physical and sexual abuse was reported in 25% during first adolescence and 15% during second adolescence. The most frequent diagnoses were adjustment disorder with depressed mood (45%) and depression (28%). Drug ingestion was the most common mean of suicide (63%), in an impulsive way in 82% of cases. CONCLUSIONS: Development of repeated epidemiological surveys makes it possible to better understand the prevalence of suicide attempts in adolescents and to implement suicide prevention programs. DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. Cambridge University Press 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9566311/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.700 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Boukhchina, R.
Aissa, A.
Kammoun, I.
Zgueb, Y.
Madouri, S.
Ouali, U.
Jomli, R.
Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents
title Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents
title_full Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents
title_fullStr Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents
title_short Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents
title_sort epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in tunisian adolescents
topic Abstract
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566311/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.700
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