Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
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...
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Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
2006-01-01
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| author | Minayo Maria Cecília de Souza Cavalcante Fátima Gonçalves Souza Edinilsa Ramos de |
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| 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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| spelling | doaj.art-0d6ade918b70420b9ea984d8a13ece3b2022-12-22T00:42:59ZengEscola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo CruzCadernos de Saúde Pública0102-311X1678-44642006-01-0122815871596Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenonMinayo Maria Cecília de SouzaCavalcante Fátima GonçalvesSouza Edinilsa Ramos deThe 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.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2006000800007SuicideSuicide AttemptedMethods |
| spellingShingle | Minayo Maria Cecília de Souza Cavalcante Fátima Gonçalves Souza Edinilsa Ramos de Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon Cadernos de Saúde Pública Suicide Suicide Attempted Methods |
| title | 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_short | Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon |
| title_sort | methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon |
| topic | Suicide Suicide Attempted Methods |
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