Suicidal planning associated factors in students from a School of Nutrition in Lima, Peru, 2009

• Autores: Virú-Loza, Manuel André, Valeriano-Palomino, Katherine Lissete, Zárate-Robles, Anthony Edgar
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2013
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/2381
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/2381
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Suicidio; planeamiento suicida; estudiantes; profesiones de la salud; desórdenes del sueño.; Suicide; suicidal planning; students; health occupations; sleep disorders.

Introduction: Suicidal planning is a previous step to suicide. High rates of suicidal planning among university students have been found in different populations, even higher than in the population students come from. Objectives: To determine which factors are associated with suicidal planning in students from a School of Nutrition. Design: Cross-sectional study. Institution: School of Nutrition, San Fernando Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Participants: First to fourth academic year students of Nutrition. Interventions: A survey was carried out. Main outcome measures: Statistical significance in logistic regression tests. Results: In bivariate analysis none of the studied variables was associated with suicidal planning. In analysis adjusted to socioeconomic variables difficulty to fall asleep at night showed association (p=0.044). Difficulty to fall asleep at night kept its association in analysis adjusted to all variables (p=0.039). Conclusions: Difficulty to fall asleep was a significant independent risk factor of suicidal planning in students from the Nutrition School studied.