Methodological proposal for studying suicide as a complex phenomenon
| Autor: | Minayo Maria Cecília de Souza, Cavalcante Fátima Gonçalves, Souza Edinilsa Ramos de |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Vol 22, Iss 8, Pp 1587-1596 (2006) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0102-311X 1678-4464 |
| Popis: | 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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