Objetivo: Analisar evidências científicas na literatura sobre a prevalência de suicídio e tentativa de suicídio no Brasil no período compreendido entre os anos de 2012 e 2018. Métodos: Trata-se de uma revisão bibliográfica. A busca foi realizada nos bancos de dados SCIELO, MEDLINE e LILACS via Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), nos idiomas português, inglês e espanhol, coletados no mês de agosto de 2018. Resultados: A apresentação dos resultados e discussão dos dados obtidos foi realizada de forma descritiva. Para essa apresentação, elaborou-se duas categorias temáticas: Perfil e Fatores Característico do Suicídio e Tentativa de Suicídio. Pôde-se analisar 11 artigos, o perfil das vítimas e os fatores característicos que contribuíram para as ocorrências de tentativa de suicídio e o suicídio. Considerações finais: A tentativa de suicídio ou efetivação do ato não está restrita apenas uma faixa etária ou um público específico, mas consegue atingir adolescentes, adultos e idosos, homens ou mulheres e está relacionada a diversos fatores como depressão, solidão, situação financeira, desesperança e falta de sentido para a vida.
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Introduction: The burden of care in family refers to the weight caused by the primary caregiver role to psychiatric patients and the difficulties encountered in performing this function in daily life.Objectives: Assessing the objective and subjective overload of family members who live with the reality of psychiatric disorder in a child day-care psychosocial care center.
Methods:Cross-sectional study, descriptive-exploratory, of quantitative approach, with non-probabilistic samples of accidental type with 80 families of psychiatric patients held in a Psychosocial Care Center. For overload evaluation, the subscales "B" and "D" of the Family Overload Rating Scale (FBIS-BR) were used.
Results:The study was conducted with 80 families of psychiatric patients. The average age of female caregivers was 39.6 years old, and
IntroductionUntil the mid-twentieth century, psychiatry offered the people suffering from mental disorders inhuman and inefficient care, which caused more damage than healing to mental health. Admissions were held for long periods with treatment similar to torture methods. In this context, the psychiatric patients could spend the rest of their lives in treatment in mental institutions [1].The mental health care in these asylums was focused on practice and medical knowledge, whose assistance was restricted to admission and medication to combat the symptoms evidenced by psychiatric patients, excluding them of the bond, interactions and all that configured it as part and product of their knowledge [2].The reality of asylums lasted until the process of deinstitutionalization of mental health, which took place in Brazil through the Psychiatric Reform which was characterized as a historical movement of political, social and economic character, which involved since breaking the practiced model to the nursing care excluding the model based on admission of psychiatric patients in mental hospitals [3].In the current model of mental health assistance, the family is entered as partner in the psychosocial rehabilitation process of person with psychiatric disorder, and can contribute to the effectiveness and efficaciousness of substitute services as also responsible for the treatment [4].The process of change in the manner of treating the psychiatric patient, keeping the person with disorder within the family, is accompanied by the emergence of family burden factors, as we note that the family would not be prepared to accept mental disorders affected people [5]. Overloading of the family is defined as the feeling of weight caused by the constant provision of care to psychiatric patients and the difficulties encountered in the role of caregiver's performance in everyday [6].Family members of mentally ill need care or assistance in relation to their own health and that of their hospitalized family member. This fact causes concern to the extent that the health system in 40.7 years old for male caregivers, with female predominance (87.5%) compared to men (12.5%), with low education for both genres. Family careg...
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