Funcionalidad familiar y su repercusión en el intento suicida en adolescentes indígenas

Abstract

Suicidal ideation is an alarming phenomenon in the indigenous adolescent school population, a situation that must be managed by the public health system, guaranteeing the well-being of the Ecuadorian community, especially adolescents and their family environment. The objective is to analyze family functionality and its relationship with suicide attempts in indigenous school adolescents. Materials and methods: Nonexperimental descriptive observational cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The source population consisted of 68 adolescents, aged between 15 and 19 years, according to gender, 34 (50%) were female and 34 (50%) male, according to the established inclusion criteria and the type of treatment. evidently intentional or nonprobabilistic selected. The results show that one of the risk factors that could influence family functionality is parental alcoholism in 70.5%, which creates suicidal thoughts in 44.1%. In relation to gender, women appeared more suicidal intentionality in 33.8% than male adolescents. It is concluded that in the Benítez parish they live in dysfunctional homes and that they are related to the risk of suicide attempt in 70.5%, these differences being statistically significant, having as factors the consumption of alcohol by the parents and the socioeconomic level