Prevalencia y factores de riesgo que determinan la conducta autolesiva en adolescentes del Colegio Nacional Experimental Benigno Malo de la ciudad de Cuenca, 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND. The World Health Organization defines adolescence as the period of human growth and development, comprised between 10-19 years of age; it presents a series of changes both physical and psychological, involving various factors that may influence the practice of self-injurious behaviors that is the repeated realization of cuts, blows and other forms of self-injury.

GENERAL PURPOSE. To identify the prevalence and risk factors that determine the self-injurious behavior in adolescents of the National Experimental School Benigno Malo of the City of Cuenca, 2017.

METHODOLOGY. It is a descriptive and observational study; a questionnaire entitled "Prevalence and Risk Factors of Self-injurious Behavior in students of the Benigno Malo National Experimental College, 2017" was applied, the results were analyzed with the SPSS program, and represented in tables.

RESULTS Of the 437 students of 15-19 years of our study sample, the (72%) resides in urban areas, the family structure that most prevails is nuclear with one (62%).- The frequency of self-harm is 135 (30.89%) divided into: men (47%) and women (53%); being the age of greatest prevalence between 15-16 years (62%) .- The cuts on the skin (28.14% women) and intentional blows (22.22% men) are the most used methods. While the factors of irrigation: psychological covers one (62.96%); the social ones with one (37.03%); family members (57.04%); the psychopathological ones in one (20.74%).