Suicide attempt and suicide of individuals with cancer living in Recife: a linkage of cancer, violence and mortality databases

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Marcos Vinicius de Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Santos, Solange Laurentino dos, Bonfim, Cristine Vieira do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3391
• topic: Câncer; Tentativa de suicídio; Suicídio; Sistema de informação; Cáncer; Intento de suicidio; Suicidio; Sistema de información; Cancer; Suicide attempt; Suicide; Information system

Cancer diagnosis generates greater chances of suicide when compared to the general population; thus, this study sought to analyze the characteristics and prevalence of suicide attempts and suicide in individuals with cancer living in Recife, Brazil, by investigating the linkage of cancer, violence and mortality registry databases. A descriptive study was conducted with individuals living with cancer registered in the Population-based Cancer Registry, the Notifiable Diseases Information System and the Mortality Information System, crossed by a probabilistic linkage. Incidence rates were calculated by gender and year. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis with a logistic regression model. Survival analysis used the Kaplan-Meier estimator and the Cox model. All analyses were performed using the R software version 3.61. A total of 52,698 cancer cases were found, of which 31,512 (59.8%) are female and 21,177 (40.2%) are male. Record linkage between the three databases analyzed returned 51 attempted suicides and 11 suicides. Suicide attempts were higher among women, aged 20 – 59 years (26), black (31), with cervical cancer (18). Suicides were higher among men (eight), over 60 years old (six), black (six), with prostate cancer (six) and hanging as the suicide method (three). As for year, 75% of suicide and suicide attempts occurred two years after cancer diagnosis. Hence, cancer was a related factor that is conducive to suicide attempts. Planning strategies to reduce suicide in individuals with cancer is needed, since this scenario can be avoided.