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- Title
Intento suicida, riesgo suicida y factores de riesgo asociados en estudiantes de Medicina: Una revisión sistemática.
- Authors
Reyes P., Marcela; Villar V., Nicolás; Sotomayor B., Pablo
- Abstract
Introduction: Suicide is the third leading cause of death among the population in the 15-29 age range, 2.2% "have seriously thought about committing suicide." Suicidal behavior is defined as that behavior in which the patient intentionally seeks to harm himself in order to end his own life. Within the age range of concern, is the university population, being a group of great relevance medical students, according to WHO studies they estimate the incidence of depression in 27.2% of medical students while suicidal ideation it reaches 11.1%, higher than the 8% prevalence in young people of the general population. Review body: Various studies have been carried out both in Latin America and around the world in the general university population where to develop psychiatric pathology, which corresponds to the main risk factor to commit suicide such as stressors in the university population in general, including long study days, burnout, high workload and financial pressure. With regard to medical students, they show that close to half (45-56%) of medical students experience burnout syndrome, which increases as the career years go by, and between 35-45% present high emotional fatigue. Conclusion: Medical students are determined as a risk group for suffering from psychiatric diseases and therefore commit suicide, it is imperative to implement an early diagnosis and be able to carry out a prompt intervent
- Publication
Revista ANACEM, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 2, p22
- ISSN
0718-5308
- Publication type
Article