Prevalencia de riesgo suicida y factores asociados en adultos mayores de parroquia urbana y rural del Cantón Cuenca, 2020.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: there are currently 700 million older adults worldwide. Suicide is one of the ten leading causes of death in this population, who are 1.5 times more likely to commit suicide than young people.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: to determine the prevalence of suicide risk and associated factors in older adults in an urban parish and a rural parish in the canton of Cuenca.

METHODOLOGY: transversal analytical study in 400 older adults of the urban parish Yanuncay and rural El Valle, a survey was carried out after signing the informed consent and obtained: sociodemographic data, Plutchik's suicide risk scale, medical, psychiatric, psychological, family factors. The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, measures of central tendency and dispersion, Odds Ratio with 95% confidence interval, chi-square with p value less than 0.05.

RESULTS: suicide risk in Yanuncay of 22.5%, associated with chronic disease OR2,979 (IC95%1,361-6,521), (p=0,005); anxiety OR12,495 (IC95%6,022-25,928), (p=0,000); suicidal ideation OR134,357 (IC95%17,410-1036,870), (p=0,000), family history of suicide OR14,757 (IC95%4,553-47,824), (p=0,000). El Valle suicide risk of 33.1%, associated with depression OR14,010 (IC95%6,495-30,218), (p=0,000); suicidal ideation OR17,095 (IC95%5,534-52,809), (p=0,000), family history of suicide OR7,115 (IC95%2,900-17,456), (p=0,000).

CONCLUSIONS: the suicide risk in Yanuncay was 22.5% and was associated with chronic illness, anxiety, suicidal ideation and family history of suicide, while; the suicide risk in El Valle was 33.1% and was associated with depression, suicidal ideation and family history of suicide.