Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon

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Autor(a) principal: Minayo,Maria Cecília de Souza
Data de Publicação: 2006
Outros Autores: Cavalcante,Fátima Gonçalves, Souza,Edinilsa Ramos de
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2006000800007
Resumo: The authors present a methodological proposal for studying suicide and suicide attempts from a combined socio-anthropological, epidemiological, and psychosocial perspective. This interdisciplinary and complex research model simultaneously examined individual, socioeconomic, historical/cultural, and population data as few studies have succeeded to date. Considering that the present study was conducted in a specific social reality, the authors created a methodological approach to comprehend the effects of a crisis in an industrial restructuring process in a mining company town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, that was associated with unusually high suicide rates. Since it referred to a small geographic area (with only 100,000 inhabitants), the research is considered an ideal case study. The authors created different strategies to trace the local epidemiological profile, adapted a psychosocial autopsy technique to elucidate suicide cases and a psychosocial harm assessment technique to comprehend suicide attempts, and conducted a local analysis of the socio-cultural context. The methods proposed here (with advantages and limitations) proved productive for elucidating the study hypothesis.
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title Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
spellingShingle Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
Minayo,Maria Cecília de Souza
Suicide
Suicide Attempted
Methods
title_short Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
title_full Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
title_fullStr Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
title_full_unstemmed Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
title_sort Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
author Minayo,Maria Cecília de Souza
author_facet Minayo,Maria Cecília de Souza
Cavalcante,Fátima Gonçalves
Souza,Edinilsa Ramos de
author_role author
author2 Cavalcante,Fátima Gonçalves
Souza,Edinilsa Ramos de
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author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Minayo,Maria Cecília de Souza
Cavalcante,Fátima Gonçalves
Souza,Edinilsa Ramos de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Suicide
Suicide Attempted
Methods
topic Suicide
Suicide Attempted
Methods
description The authors present a methodological proposal for studying suicide and suicide attempts from a combined socio-anthropological, epidemiological, and psychosocial perspective. This interdisciplinary and complex research model simultaneously examined individual, socioeconomic, historical/cultural, and population data as few studies have succeeded to date. Considering that the present study was conducted in a specific social reality, the authors created a methodological approach to comprehend the effects of a crisis in an industrial restructuring process in a mining company town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, that was associated with unusually high suicide rates. Since it referred to a small geographic area (with only 100,000 inhabitants), the research is considered an ideal case study. The authors created different strategies to trace the local epidemiological profile, adapted a psychosocial autopsy technique to elucidate suicide cases and a psychosocial harm assessment technique to comprehend suicide attempts, and conducted a local analysis of the socio-cultural context. The methods proposed here (with advantages and limitations) proved productive for elucidating the study hypothesis.
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