PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED SUICIDE IN BRAZIL: 2010, 2015 AND 2020

Abstract

Suicide is a public health problem that has multivariable causes, from psychological issues to social factors. Therefore, the article aimed to examine and compare the suicide rates of a group referring to three years (2010, 2015 and 2020), so that it is possible to understand the patterns and variations between the years. For this, DATASUS data were used, in the ICD-10 category, of intentional self-inflicted injuries, together with the variables: sex, place of occurrence and race/color. The technique used was the multivariate variance technique (MANOVA), in order to highlight and measure the respective descriptive statistics each year. The results showed that the variable sex and the variable place of occurrence did not present equality in the means between the groups of the years analyzed, where only the variable color/race presented considerably this equality in the mean vector. In addition, the prevalence of suicide in males and at home showed patterns in the three years, justified by cultural issues. Therefore, it is concluded that suicide has different aspects due to the variation of the interpretation that the subject gives to suicide depending on the context and time in force, requiring the development of preventive measures.