Browsing by Subject "Suicide"

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    • 1324 prison suicides in 10 countries in South America: incidence, relative risks, and ecological factors 
      Domenico Fritz, Francesco; Fazel, Seena; Benavides Salcedo, Andrés; Henry, Paulette; Rivera Arroyo, Guillermo; Torales, Julio; Trujillo Orrego, Natalia; Vásquez, Freddy; Mundt, Adrián P. (Springer, 2020)
      Purpose Although suicide rates of prison populations and incidence factors have been reported for high-income countries, data from low- and middle-income regions are lacking. The purpose of the study was to estimate suicide ...
    • Antipsychotics and suicide Antipsicóticos y suicidio 
      Martínez-Aguayo, Juan Carlos; Silva, Hernán; Arancibia, Marcelo; Angulo, Claudia; Madrid, Eva (Sociedad de Neurologia Psiquiatria y Neurocirugia, 2016)
      The opinions about the relationship between antipsychotics and suicide are controversial due to differences on reported evidence about their specific action. One of the most discussed topics is the increase of depressive ...
    • Apuntes sobre la eutanasia 
      Goic Goic, Alejandro (2005)
      In the Judeo-Christian tradition, human life is held to be sacred, a semblance of the divine and a gift from God which the individual cannot dispose of at his or her own will. Hence, these monotheistic religions have ...
    • Argumentos éticos a favor y en contra de la participación del profesional médico en la muerte asistida. ... 
      Salas, Sofía P.; Salinas Ríos, Rodrigo Alejandro; Besio, Mauricio; Micolich, Constanza; Arriagada Urzúa, Anamaría; Misseroni Raddatz, Adelio; Valenzuela, Carlos Y.; Novoa, Fernando; Bórquez Estefó, Gladys (Sociedad Médica Santiago, 2020)
      The discussion of a bill that allows medically assisted death (MAD) in Chile, revived the debate about the ethics of this practice. The Department of Ethics of the Chilean Medical Association herein analyzes arguments in ...
    • Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir 
      Bascuñán Rodríguez, Antonio (Soc Médica Santiago, 2016)
      This paper reviews the sentences dictated between 1993 and 2002 by the Supreme Courts of Canada and the Unites States, the House of Lords and Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the European Human Rights Court, about ...
    • Do antidepressants really increase suicide rates in childhood and adolescence? Es efectivo que los ... 
      Fierro Silva, Hernán Alejandro; Martínez, Juan Carlos (2007)
      The use of antidepressant in depressive illness results in a reduction of suicidal attempts and deaths due to suicide, conditions that are generally present in this disorder. Recently, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) ...
    • El maltrato infantil y su rol en el curso clínico de pacientes con trastorno bipolar 
      Ríos, Ulises; Moya, Pablo R.; Urrejola, Óscar; Hermosilla, Jimena; González, René; Muñoz, Paulina; Morán, Javier; Solervicens, Paula; Jiménez de la Jara, Juan (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2020)
      Background: A history of child abuse is common and has a significant impact in the clinical course of patients diagnosed with bipolar disorders (BD). Aims: To assess the frequency of child abuse experiences in patients BD ...
    • Muertes por suicidio en la Región de Tarapacá, años 1990-2013 
      Madariaga Araya, Carlos; Ulloa D., Ornella; Gómez V., Ana-Genoveva; Iriondo C., Pedro; Alvarado Muñoz, Rubén (Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía, 2016)
      Introduction: It presents the update of an epidemiologic descriptive study of deaths by suicide that took place in the Tarapacá region, Chile. The study encompasses almost a quarter of a century, between the years 1990 ...
    • Psychosocial factors and sociodemographic characteristics associated with suicidality risk in chilean adolescents 
      Zulic Agramunt, Christianne Milena; Guzmán Guzmán, Iris Paola; Delgado Floody, Pedro Antonio; Cerda Saavedra, Monserrat Belén; Gutiérrez de la Fuente, Patricio; Meza Solano, Mario Patricio; Sagredo Berríos, Claudia; Pérez Testor, Carles (MDPI, 2022)
      Background: Suicidality in adolescents is a growing concern and is currently a public health issue in Chile and the world. Objective: To determine the association between the risk of suicidality with self-harm, ...
    • Recent case law about the right to die Desarrollos recientes en la jurisprudencia sobre el derecho a morir 
      Bascuñán Rodríguez, Antonio (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved. This paper reviews the sentences dictated between 1993 and 2002 by the Supreme Courts of Canada and the Unites States, the House of Lords and Supreme Court of the ...
    • Relation between suicidal ideation and parenting styles among a group of Chilean adolescents Relación entre ... 
      Ramón Florenzano, U.; Macarena Valdés, C.; Eugenio Cáceres, C.; Sylvia Santander, R.; Carolina Aspillaga, H.; Claudia Musalem, A. (2011)
      Background: In Chile, there has been an increase in suicide rates from 1.1 to 2.6 per 100,000 among adolescents aged 10 to 14 years and from 4.4 to 8.9 per 100,000 among those aged 15 to 19 years Aim: To identify protective ...
    • Study of female suicide attempters. A five years follow up La conducta suicida en mujeres: Un estudio prospective 
      Jaar H, Eduardo; Gómez Ch, Alejandro; Orellana V, Gricel; Núñez M, Carlos; Montino R, Olga; Lolas Stepke, Fernando (1998)
      Background: A previous suicide attempt is one of the strongest predictors of future suicidal behavior. Aim: To explore the evolution of suicidal tendencies in women who attempted suicide 5 to 7 years earlier. Patients and ...
    • Suicide by interruption of hemodialysis, in a patient with chronic renal failure. analisis of one case ... 
      Gómez, Alejandro; Bórquez, Pamela (2012)
      In Chile, interruption of hemodialysis is cause of death in 0.37% of patients under this treatment. We report a 83-year-old woman suffering from chronic renal failure who withdrew from prolonged hemodialysis treatment. ...
    • Suicide detection in Chile: Proposing a predictive model for suicide risk in a clinical sample of patients ... 
      Barros, Jorge; Morales, Susana; Echávarri, Orietta; García, Arnol; Ortega, Jaime; Asahi, Takeshi; Moya, Claudia; Fischman, Ronit; Maino, María P.; Núñez, Catalina (Associacao Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2017)
      © 2017, Associacao Brasileira de Psiquiatria. All rights reserved. Objective: To analyze suicidal behavior and build a predictive model for suicide risk using data mining (DM) analysis. Methods: A study of 707 Chilean ...
    • Suicide in a HIV-infected adult population cared at a chilean public hospital: an appraisal of the issue 
      Levy, C. Wolff; Wolff, M. (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
    • Suicide risk after bariatric surgery Suicidio y cirugía bariátrica: Un estudio de la evidencia 
      Roizblatt Scherzer, Arturo; Roizblatt, Daniel; Soto Aguilar, Francisca (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Bariatric surgery is considered the most effective treatment for severe obesity and its benefits include improvement in medical comorbidities. However, a higher ...
    • Suicide risk configuration system in a clustered clinical sample: A generalized linear model obtained through ... 
      Maino, María de la Paz; Morales, Susana; Echávarri, Orietta; Barros, Jorge; García, Arnol; Moya, Claudia; Szmulewicz, Tita; Fischman, Ronit; Núñez, Catalina; Tomicic, Alemka (Associacao Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2019)
      Objective: To identify clinical and sociodemographic factors that increase or decrease suicidal risk in a clinical sample of subjects seeking mental health care. Method: A cross-sectional study was performed at three health ...
    • ¿Voluntad de vivir o voluntad de morir? El suicidio en Schopenhauer y Mainländer 
      Baquedano Jer, Sandra (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, 2007)
      El apego a la vida suele ser más fuerte que todas las miserias del mundo, y aunque muchos juzguen que la vida no vale la pena ser vivida, son pocos los que se suicidan. Esto se debe a que el querer la vida no implica más ...
    • When and how to use Lithium 
      Barroilhet Diez, Sergio; Ghaemi, Nassir (Wiley, 2020)
      Background Lithium is an old proven medication, but it is infrequently used in current practice. This review examines evidence for its benefits and risks and provides clinical guidance to its use. Method Narrative review. ...