Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective Factors
BackgroundSuicide is the second most common cause of preventable mortality among Brazilian and French adolescents. The aim of the current study was to compare the main risk and protective factors associated with a suicide attempt (SA) and to highlight differences based on geographical characteristic...
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Natalia C. Rufino Bojan Mirkovic Angèle Consoli Angèle Consoli Hugues Pellerin Juliana P. M. Santos Thiago M. Fidalgo Priscille Gerardin Dartiu X. Silveira David Cohen David Cohen David Cohen Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective Factors Frontiers in Psychiatry adolescent suicide attempt coping spirituality attachment style |
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Natalia C. Rufino Bojan Mirkovic Angèle Consoli Angèle Consoli Hugues Pellerin Juliana P. M. Santos Thiago M. Fidalgo Priscille Gerardin Dartiu X. Silveira David Cohen David Cohen David Cohen |
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Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective Factors |
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Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective Factors |
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Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective Factors |
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Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective Factors |
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Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective Factors |
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suicide attempts among french and brazilian adolescents admitted to an emergency room. a comparative study of risk and protective factors |
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BackgroundSuicide is the second most common cause of preventable mortality among Brazilian and French adolescents. The aim of the current study was to compare the main risk and protective factors associated with a suicide attempt (SA) and to highlight differences based on geographical characteristics.MethodWe compared a Brazilian sample (N = 45) of adolescents admitted to the emergency room of a public hospital in São Paulo for SA to a French sample (N = 320) of adolescents hospitalized for SA across 5 paediatric departments. Then, we ran several multivariate models to examine how each selected variable was related to geographic origin and to the other selected variables linked to geographic origin.ResultsThe two samples presented no significant differences regarding gender, age or schooling. Both samples had high rates of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, substance use, disruptive disorders, borderline psychopathology, and lifetime SAs. However, the Brazilian sample presented significantly higher levels of psychopathology and had more insecure attachment relationships (fearful and detached), whereas the French sample had a more secure attachment style. Brazilian adolescents had more recourse to spiritual beliefs and spiritual support, whereas the French adolescents had higher scores on the Reasons for Living Inventory and used more help-seeking strategies from their social network, mainly close friends. Multivariate models showed that two productive coping strategies (seeking spiritual support and social action) and the dependence score were significantly associated with membership in the Brazilian cohort, whereas a secure attachment style and depression severity (evaluated by the Beck Depression Inventory) were significantly associated with membership in the French cohort.ConclusionDespite presenting similar psychopathologies, Brazilian adolescents presented a more insecure attachment style and used the religious kind of coping more commonly than their French counterparts. We hypothesize that religion may compensate for the social vulnerabilities present in a middle-income country such as Brazil. More transcultural studies may help to elucidate this phenomenon. |
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adolescent suicide attempt coping spirituality attachment style |
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doaj-ed2dd1d415f140268989edceb23a7a4e2020-11-25T02:49:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402020-08-011110.3389/fpsyt.2020.00742544597Suicide Attempts Among French and Brazilian Adolescents Admitted to an Emergency Room. A Comparative Study of Risk and Protective FactorsNatalia C. Rufino0Bojan Mirkovic1Angèle Consoli2Angèle Consoli3Hugues Pellerin4Juliana P. M. Santos5Thiago M. Fidalgo6Priscille Gerardin7Dartiu X. Silveira8David Cohen9David Cohen10David Cohen11Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilService de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, CHU Charles Nicolle/CH Le Rouvray, Normandie Université, Rouen, FranceDépartement de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, FranceGRC-15, Approche dimensionnelle des épisodes psychotiques de l’enfant et de l’adolescent, Faculté de Médecine, UPMC, Sorbonne Université, Paris, FranceDépartement de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, FranceDepartment of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilDepartment of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilService de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, CHU Charles Nicolle/CH Le Rouvray, Normandie Université, Rouen, FranceDepartment of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BrazilDépartement de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, FranceGRC-15, Approche dimensionnelle des épisodes psychotiques de l’enfant et de l’adolescent, Faculté de Médecine, UPMC, Sorbonne Université, Paris, FranceCNRS UMR 7222 “Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotiques”, Sorbonne Université, Paris, FranceBackgroundSuicide is the second most common cause of preventable mortality among Brazilian and French adolescents. The aim of the current study was to compare the main risk and protective factors associated with a suicide attempt (SA) and to highlight differences based on geographical characteristics.MethodWe compared a Brazilian sample (N = 45) of adolescents admitted to the emergency room of a public hospital in São Paulo for SA to a French sample (N = 320) of adolescents hospitalized for SA across 5 paediatric departments. Then, we ran several multivariate models to examine how each selected variable was related to geographic origin and to the other selected variables linked to geographic origin.ResultsThe two samples presented no significant differences regarding gender, age or schooling. Both samples had high rates of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, substance use, disruptive disorders, borderline psychopathology, and lifetime SAs. However, the Brazilian sample presented significantly higher levels of psychopathology and had more insecure attachment relationships (fearful and detached), whereas the French sample had a more secure attachment style. Brazilian adolescents had more recourse to spiritual beliefs and spiritual support, whereas the French adolescents had higher scores on the Reasons for Living Inventory and used more help-seeking strategies from their social network, mainly close friends. Multivariate models showed that two productive coping strategies (seeking spiritual support and social action) and the dependence score were significantly associated with membership in the Brazilian cohort, whereas a secure attachment style and depression severity (evaluated by the Beck Depression Inventory) were significantly associated with membership in the French cohort.ConclusionDespite presenting similar psychopathologies, Brazilian adolescents presented a more insecure attachment style and used the religious kind of coping more commonly than their French counterparts. We hypothesize that religion may compensate for the social vulnerabilities present in a middle-income country such as Brazil. More transcultural studies may help to elucidate this phenomenon.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00742/fulladolescentsuicide attemptcopingspiritualityattachment style |