title: [Socio-demographic and psychopathological analysis of child and adolescent attempted suicides].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze socio-demographic and psychopathological factors affecting attempted suicides by youths admitted to the Hospital de Niños de Córdoba (Argentina).
  
  
  METHODS
  prospective study based on clinical interviews and tests conducted on 80% of the patients admitted to the hospital in 2006. The significance level established for statistical comparisons was 0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  70% of the patient were female and 30% were male, the latter having a lower mean age than the female group (p0.001). The most common type of autoagression was the ingestion of medicines (87%). The most significant precedents in the psychopatological histories were: previous attempted suicides and conduct disorders (p0.002); 79% of them were not under treatment. Diagnoses at the moment of admission were: Mood Disorder (74%) and Disocial Disorder (74%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the main characteristics of this group are previous attempted suicides and psychopathological conditions which could have been diagnosed and treated previously.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Salud Mental del Hospital de Niños de Córdoba. Investigadora de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la FCM-UNC. bellamonica@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Mónica Edith
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bella
authors.forename: Alicia Ruth
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Acevedo
authors.forename: José María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Willington
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*