Introduction: It is estimated that 1 million suicide deaths are occurring annually in the world, and studies suggesting that there are 10 to 40 attempts for each consummation of suicide, revealing its high impact (personal, social and economic) and being considered by the WHO as a serious public health problem.Objective: Evaluating the profile of suicide attempts at a public hospital in Rio Branco, from 2007 to 2016.Methods: This is a retrospective-descriptive study, with secondary. The sample consisted of 569 cases of suicide attempts of people residing in the city of Rio Branco. The analysis was carried out through simple, absolute and relative frequencies of the variables, stratified by treatment year, sex, age group, methods used and region of residence.
Results:There was a significant difference in relation to sex after a change in the system in 2014, and the frequency in the female sex was higher. Intoxication was the most commonly used method, mainly by women. The highest risk group was from ten to 29 years old, totaling more than 70% of the cases, revealing the prevalence of suicide attempts in teenagers and young adults.
Conclusions:This study indicates that suicide attempts in the municipality of Rio Branco -Acre state are more frequent in teenagers and young adults, of both sex, in the age range from ten to 29 years old, and that drug intoxication is the most used method, mainly among women.
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the quality of life of emergency professionals in public units of reference units in Rio Branco-Acre. METHODS: Cross-sectional and exploratory cross-sectional study, with 212 emergency professionals from October 2016 to June 2017. TheWe used the WHOQOL-bref questionnaires were used for quality of life questionnaires, the Epworth sleepiness scale, the Pittsburgh sleep quality index of Pittsburgh sleep, the international physical activity questionnaire-IPAQ-short versionform, the nutritional status, and the socio-demographic variables questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics with the SPSS software, version 20.0, assuming a level of significance of 0.05. To verify the normality of the data, the Pearson's chi-square test, the Shapiro-Wilk test and the non-parametric Spearman’s nonparametric test were used to verify theperform the analyses of correlations betweenamong the variables of quality of life, health conditions and socio-demographic variables. RESULTS: The nursing category was the most studied with 68% (p = 0.045), and 39.2% (p = 0.611) presented an age range between 30-40 years. Among the professionals, 78.8% (p = 0.618) worked on rotatingional shifts, wherein which 41.5% (p = 0.093) presented a poor subjective sleep quality of bad sleep, being more expressive in men, with 50.6% (p = 0.093). Among men, higher risk behaviors were observed, with 11.1% (p = 0.003) for diabetes and 29.8% (p = 0.024) of the women presented with other diseases. According toRegarding the physical and psychological domains, the lowest meanssaverage of quality of life were evaluated in womenthe female sex (62.00 ± 17.00 and 67.23 ± 16.52), both domains with p <0.001 and in the 51-60 age range 51-60 yearsof(59.10 ± 17.12 and 64.58 ± 18.16) with p = 0.024 and p = 0.037. CONCLUSION: The quality of life of emergency professionals is linked to different factors that may directly interfere with public health.
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