Conductas e ideación suicida en infantes y adolescentes.

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to analyze the psychological factors associated with suicidal behavior and ideation in boys, girls and adolescents through a documentary review of international, national and regional research in the period from 2016 to 2021, for the creation of a strategy for promoting mental health and preventing suicide attempts. As evidenced in this research, the suicide attempt refers to actions carried out to cause one's own death, but with a non-fatal outcome. These actions may have been abandoned, interrupted or have failed and constitute the most important risk factor for suicide, which, for its part, is defined as self-inflicted violence, intentionally, so that the individual ends his own life, and Conductas e ideación suicida en infantes y adolescentes 9 In this way, multiple risk factors are evidenced that determine prompt intervention and prevention.