Suicídio, transtorno mental e lesão autoprovocada sobre a ótica da estatística multivariada

Abstract

Mental health is one of the most important and fundamental aspects intrinsic to people. It concerns well-being, the way we deal with the environment in which we live, behaviors, among others. Just as it is essential to take care of physical health, the same must happen with mental health, since such a disease arises, it can cause serious and even irrevocable problems, such as suicide. The objective of this work is to evaluate the numbers of deaths by suicide in Brazil and to verify some of the factors that may be related to suicide, such as hospitalizations for mental disorders and hospitalizations for self-harm in the year of 2008. The data were obtained from the DATASUS website and for the analysis we used the technique of simple correspondence analysis. The registered occurrences of deaths by suicide are more frequent for men aged between 20 and 49 years. Brazilian states behave similarly to each other when comparing the number of records of deaths by suicide, taking into account the age group. The results obtained in the Analysis of Simple Correspondence were satisfactory.