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Epidemiological and clinical profile of suicide attempts in Tunisian adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

R. Boukhchina ,
A. Aissa ,
I. Kammoun ,
Y. Zgueb ,
S. Madouri ,
U. Ouali  and
R. Jomli
R. Boukhchina
Affiliation:
Razi hospital, Psychiatry A Department, Manouba, Tunisia
A. Aissa*
Affiliation:
Razi hospital, Psychiatry A Department, Manouba, Tunisia
I. Kammoun
Affiliation:
Razi hospital, Psychiatry A Department, Manouba, Tunisia
Y. Zgueb
Affiliation:
Razi hospital, Psychiatry A Department, Manouba, Tunisia
S. Madouri
Affiliation:
Razi hospital, Psychiatry A Department, manouba, Tunisia
U. Ouali
Affiliation:
Razi hospital, Psychiatry A Department, manouba, Tunisia
R. Jomli
Affiliation:
Razi hospital, Psychiatry A Department, manouba, Tunisia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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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.

Keywords

suicide attemptsSuicideadolescencerisk factors
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S273
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