Factores psicológicos asociados al intento de suicidio en jóvenes de Santa Rosa del Sur, Bolívar.

Abstract

This research aims to describe the psychological factors associated with suicide attempts in young people with previous attempt of the municipality of Santa Rosa del Sur, Bolívar. The research is of a quantitative type, of a cross-sectional or transactional nature of correlational research scope; the instruments used are the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and the Suicide Risk Scale designed. The sample is of a nonprobabilistic type for convenience made up of eight (8) young people from the municipality. The results show that sociodemographic data such as gender, age, educational level, diagnosis of depression and marital status are predisposing aspects to self-injurious behaviors; also, that 87.5 of the studied sample is at risk of attempted suicide, according to the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale; As for the depressive symptomatological evaluation according to the Beck Depression Inventory, 12.5% of the sample is located at a normal level of ups and downs; 12.5% indicate a slight disturbance in mood, 37.5% present intermittent depression states and 37% evidence symptomatology of moderate depression; therefore, an average positive correlation of 0.63 was obtained between the level of depression and the level of suicide risk, which indicates that the greater the depression, the greater the risk of suicide attempt.