Contribution of Psychological Autopsy to the Understanding of Suicidal Behaviors in French Overseas Territories
University Hospital Center of Martinique
150 participants
Jan 25, 2024
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Conditions
Summary
The mains objectives of our project are to coordinate the monitoring of suicides and to identify common or specific suicide risk factors in four overseas DROM-COM (French Polynesia, La Reunion, French Guiana and Martinique) by comparing to a site in mainland France (Amiens). A mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative) will be used, based on semi-directed interviews of the psychological autopsy type.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- Persons close of the deceased
- Persons who knew about his/her childhood
- Age 18 or over
- Interviewed for the study between 2 and 11 months after the suicide
Exclusion Criteria3
- People with neuropsychiatric disorders that may affect the quality of the information collected, cognitive (memory and expression) and judgmental functions
- People who refuses to participate
- Persons referred to articles L.1121-6, L.1121-7, L. 1121-8 L.1121-1-2 of the French Public Health Code.
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Interventions
The interviewers will collect data from relatives using questionnaires and evaluation grids based on an identification form, a Life Trajectory questionnaire, an anthropological evaluation grid, a retrospective psychiatric diagnosis questionnaire (SCID), a socio-demographic questionnaire, a questionnaire on suicide risks and a questionnaire on emotional state.
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NCT05773898