Factores de riesgo asociados a la conducta suicida de adolescentes en Colombia

Abstract

Objective: What are the main risk factors associated with suicidal behavior in adolescents in Colombia? Method: This article responds to a bibliographic review, so the proposed methodology corresponds to one of a descriptive theoretical, documentary type, since it will compile a series of documents that will answer the stated objectives, the primary and tertiary sources used. Results: Understanding that suicide is a multifactorial phenomenon, the risk factors in relation to suicidal behavior correspond to social, individual, biological, economic and cultural characteristics, in the same way, behaviors directed at the occasion of suicide are related to gender who wishes to commit suicide and the force that has the ideas of death in the subject, because when the ideas are persistent more lethal actions are committed.