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Reasons assigned to suicide attempts: adolescents’ perceptions

2021; Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem; Volume: 75; Issue: suppl 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0163

ISSN

1984-0446

Autores

Émilen Vieira Simões, Adriane María Netto de Oliveira, Leandro Barbosa de Pinho, Luciano Garcia Lourenção, Stella Minasi de Oliveira, Francisca Lucélia Ribeiro de Farias,

Tópico(s)

Youth, Drugs, and Violence

Resumo

identify the reasons for attempting suicide from the perspective of adolescents.qualitative study conducted with ten adolescents who attempted suicide and were attending a Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Infanto-Juvenil located in a city in the south of Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were held in July 2020 using WhatsApp. Data were analyzed according to Minayo's Content Thematic Analysis.the adolescents' reports listed the reasons that triggered suicide attempts, such as changes in the adolescents' life cycle and violence, which led them to attempt suicide to solve problems.Data analysis revealed the reasons that triggered suicide attempts from the adolescents' perspective and difficulties to cope with problems, probably explained by their lack of experience in dealing with frustrations and disappointments.

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