{"id":782,"date":"2019-08-29T08:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/?p=782"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:13:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:13:27","slug":"what-are-the-challenges-to-prevent-suicide-among-brazilian-children-and-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/2019\/08\/29\/what-are-the-challenges-to-prevent-suicide-among-brazilian-children-and-adolescents\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the challenges to prevent suicide among Brazilian children and adolescents?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Luc\u00eda Silva, Assistant professor, Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The editorial titled \u201cSuicide among children and adolescents: a warning to accomplish a global imperative\u201d, published in the Acta Paulista de Enfermagem<\/em> (vol. 32, no. 3) and written by Professor Lucia Silva emphasizes the challenges to prevent suicide among Brazilian children and adolescents. This effort is based on the global imperative established by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2014) to reduce suicide rates up to 10% by 2020. The editorial addresses the basic concepts for understandings suicide behavior and reinforces the value of scientific evidences and trained professionals for public policies planning.<\/p>\n

The author presents recently published studies conducted in large Brazilian cities and pointed out an increase of 24% in suicide rate among adolescents between 2006 and 2015, and the fact that socioeconomic indicators such as social inequality and unemployment are determinants for suicide risk in this population (JAEN-VARAS, et al.<\/em>, 2019).<\/p>\n

According to Silva, suicide jeopardizes countries\u2019 development because of the risk to decrease the number of children and adolescents who would be economically active. In addition, she highlights that the loss, perceived as tragedy, may cause ambiguous feelings among those in grieving, such as shame, angry, pain and homesick (SILVA, et al<\/em>., 2018). For this reason, to provide support during grieving is paramount for individuals experiencing the loss of a loved one.<\/p>\n

The editorial also states some risk of suicide behavior in childhood and adolescence, however, the author emphasizes the multifactorial nature of this event, which clarifies that this phenomenon is not associated with a single cause.<\/p>\n

Other situation highlighted by the author is related with the urgency of some reflections about current policies to create pathways to support suicide prevention, such as: the potential of collective health perspectives, based on the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) principles, to deal with such a complex phenomenon, the licensing of firearms possession, and the increasing of the number of approved pesticides. These are means that an individual can use for suicide. There is also the risks involved in the implementation of the law 13.819\/2019 (BRASIL, 2019), which establishes National Prevention Policies of Auto-mutilation and Suicide in which requires compulsory notification actions by educational and tutelary institutions, but without establishment of adequate training for professionals who work in such scenarios mainly regarding to how to support, guarantee confidentiality, and referee to specific care children, adolescents, and their families.<\/p>\n

References<\/h3>\n

JAEN-VARAS, D., et al<\/em>. The association between adolescent suicide rates and socioeconomic indicators in Brazil: a 10-year retrospective ecological study. Braz. J. Psychiatry<\/em> [online]. 2019, ahead of print<\/em>, ISSN: 1516-4446 [viewed 29 August 2019]. DOI: 10.1590\/1516-4446-2018-0223<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/t4g8w3<\/a><\/p>\n

Lei n\u00ba 13.819, de 26 de abril de 2019 [online]. Imprensa Nacional. 2019 [viewed 29 August 2019]. Available from: http:\/\/www.in.gov.br\/web\/dou\/-\/lei-n%C2%BA-13.819-de-26-de-abril-de-2019-85673796<\/a><\/p>\n

SILVA, L., et al<\/em>. Care for families after suicide loss: nursing academic experience. Rev. Bras. Enferm<\/em>. [online]. 2018, vol. 71, suppl. 5, pp. 2206-2212, ISSN: 0034-7167 [viewed 29 August 2019]. DOI: 10.1590\/0034-7167-2017-0445<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/w2jfm6<\/a><\/p>\n

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION \u2013 WHO. Preventing suicide: a global imperative. Gen\u00e8ve: WHO, 2014 [viewed 29 August 2019]. Available from: http:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/131056\/9789241564779_eng.pdf ?sequence=1<\/a><\/p>\n

To read the article, visit<\/h3>\n

SILVA, L. Suicide among children and adolescents: a warning to accomplish a global imperative. Acta paul. enferm<\/em>. [online]. 2019, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 3-6, ISSN: 0103-2100 [viewed 29 August 2019]. DOI: 10.1590\/1982-0194201900033<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/f6dbjw<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

External link<\/h3>\n

Acta Paulista de Enfermagem \u2013 APE: <http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/ape<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientific evidences have pointed out for the increase of suicides among children and adolescents worldwide, including Brazil. This study presents risk factors related with this phenomenon, as well as reflections that can indicate pathways to support suicide preventions among this specific population. …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,8,12],"tags":[14,194],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ape","category-health-sciences","category-press-releases","tag-acta-paulista-de-enfermagem","tag-nursing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}