Association Between Suicidal Behaviour and Cannabis and Tranquilizer use, Depression, Aggression and Other Borderline Personality Traits Among Students in Sincelejo, Colombia.

Autor: Romero-Acosta K; Department of Psychological Research, House 9, Corporación Universitaria del Caribe CECAR, Sincelejo, Colombia. Electronic address: k.kellyromeroacosta@gmail.com., Verhelst S; Department of Psychological Research, House 9, Corporación Universitaria del Caribe CECAR, Sincelejo, Colombia., Lowe GA; Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies - Mona, Kingston, Jamaica., Lipps GE; Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, The University of the West Indies - Mona, Kingston, Jamaica., Restrepo J; Department of Psychological Research, House 9, Corporación Universitaria del Caribe CECAR, Sincelejo, Colombia., Fonseca L; Department of Psychological Research, House 9, Corporación Universitaria del Caribe CECAR, Sincelejo, Colombia.
Jazyk: English; Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Revista Colombiana de psiquiatria (English ed.) [Rev Colomb Psiquiatr (Engl Ed)] 2023 Jul-Sep; Vol. 52 (3), pp. 225-235.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcpeng.2021.05.011
Abstrakt: Objective: This objective of this study is to examine the association between suicidal behaviour and substance use, depression, aggressiveness and borderline personality traits among adolescents from Sincelejo, a rural city in the north of Colombia.
Methods: This cross sectional study included 352 participants selected by purposive sampling, from a public and a private school located in Sincelejo, Sucre district, in the north of Colombia. Students ages ranged from 12 to 18 years old (mean, 15.09±1.82). The participants completed three screening tools: a socio-demographic questionnaire, a screening instrument to collect information related to the frequency of use of some substances, such as tobacco and cannabis, and a self-report inventory to assess various personality and psychopathology domains. A series of t-tests, ANOVA and linear regression analyses were conducted.
Results: Physical aggression (t=7.74; p <0.01), cognitive depression (t=5.03; p <0.01), affective depression (t=8.24; p <0.01), affective instability (t=3.46; p <0.01), few social relationships (t=3.36; p <0.01), self-harm (t=3.45; p<.01), cannabis and tranquilizer use (t=2.83; p <0.05; and t=2.37; p <0.05) had a significant independent relationship with suicidal behaviour. Aggression (t=2.59; p <0.05), components of depression (t=9.03; p <0.01) and borderline personality traits (t=4.12; p <0.01) also predicted suicidal behaviour.
Conclusions: More longitudinal studies are needed in this area to identify the causal relations between the factors studied and the suicidal behaviour of young people in Sincelejo.
(Copyright © 2021 Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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