Etapa de pre egreso de la prisión e intento de suicidio en jóvenes privados de libertad

Abstract

Suicide is one of the leading causes of violent death in adolescence and youth in the world, and incarceration increases it.  e stage of entering the prison is one of the moments of greatest risk and also in the before release stage, which may be linked to anxiety and expectations of return to a vulnerable environment and uncertainty.  e objective of this work was to determine the eff ect of the pre release stage on crittical suicide attempts in young imprisoned in Uruguay during 2017. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, retrospective correlational case study was conducted and episodes of attempted suicide were analyzed in relation to the date of release from prison. Were identifi ed 39 episodes in men and 22 in women between 14 to 18 years old, whit an average age of 15.94 (SD = 1.17).  e results show that the pre release stage increases the risk of suicide attempt among young people imprisioned by 1.7 (0.9 - 3.0) times and women have 34 times more than men (17.5-68.2) suicide risk in this condition.