Vivencias socioafetivas de famílias que sofreram morte por suicídio de membro jovem em no bairro Petrópolis-Manaus

Abstract

Suicide is a serious problem of public health, which affect to each country around the world in all the group ages. Suicide is the second cause of death of young people, between 15 and 29 years. In the case of Brazil, few studies were found in the area about the impact of suicide in families. The general objective of this dissertation, was to understand the socio-affective experience, of families who suffered because of suicide death, of a young member, the research was conducted in a neighborhood belong to Manaus city, and the specific objectives were, to describe the ways about how family deal with suicide of young people, and its ways of confrontation. Characterize psychosocial aspect that involve the episode in terms related with its backgrounds for the family and young people, and to identify sources of social support and the attendance of social networks, for the family in the moment before and after the episode. This is a qualitative research of exploratory type, it was used as a method of research psychosocial autopsy, and as instrument of data collection a script of semi-structured interview with three families who lost a young member, because of suicide in the Petrópolis neighborhood in the Manaus city, the three cases were men between the ages of 22 and 26 years. Content analysis was used for data analysis, and the theoretical framework was based on a new paradigm of complexity, using systemic theories, structural theory of family functioning and social network theory. The main results of this research were: the main feelings that family experienced at the moment before and after the fact stand out: pain, angry, guilt. There is a clear difference between the Coping Mechanism of men and women (mother, father) as a product of the influence of culture, machismo. The main risk factors that influenced the death of young people were physical and psychological health problems, illicit drug and alcohol use, family history, and some cases of family conflicts that could be related to the death of the young people. In addition, were identified social support: relatives, neighbors, church, and friends. According to the finding were not found official institutional network.