Prevalencia y caracterización clínico - epidemiológica y médico legal de los intentos autolíticos en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca, 2018-2020

Abstract

Background: Suicide attempts are part of suicidal behavior and people who manifest it can end up consummating this act. In Ecuador, there are few studies on this rate, which is why it becomes a social and public health problem that must be prioritized in our country. General objective: to determine the prevalence and clinical-epidemiological and medico-legal characterization of suicide attempts at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital. Basin, 2018-2020 Materials and methods: Quantitative, cross-sectional, retrospective and descriptive study. The medical records that correspond to suicide attempts at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital, year 2018-2020, are included. The variables that were studied were: sociodemographic, clinical-epidemiological and medico-legal characteristics. The information was collected from the hospital statistics service to be later analyzed and expressed in frequency tables and percentages for qualitative and quantitative variables, means and standard deviation. Results: The prevalence of suicide attempts produced in 3 years at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital was 0.69% more common in women and in the range of 20 to 39 years, the majority due to dru0067 intoxication with consumption of 1.1% of the cases. A comparison was made with the prevalence during the pandemic, showing an increase of 0.99%. Conclusions: The prevalence of attempted suicide in the sample studied is below the general average, with similar clinical characteristics in Latin America. However, it was shown that, in the COVID 19 pandemic, its prevalence increased, with a low frequency of consummation.