Morrer juntas? Pacto de suicídio na adolescência - Relato de caso

Die together? Suicide pact in adolescence - Case report

Authors

  • Filipa Maria Dias Moreira Mestrado em Medicina. Médica Interna de Psiquiatria da Infância e Adolescência. Departamento de Pedopsiquiatria, Centro Hospitalar do Porto. Portugal.
  • Inês Guerra e Costa Machado de Aguiar Mestrado em Medicina. Médica Interna de Pedopsiquiatria. Departamento de Pedopsiquiatria, Centro Hospitalar do Porto. Portugal
  • Maria da Luz da Fonseca Mestrado em Medicina. Médica Interna de Pedopsiquiatria. Departamento de Pedopsiquiatria, Centro Hospitalar do Porto. Portugal.
  • Nuno Miguel Soares Pangaio Mestrado em Medicina. Médico Interno de Pedopsiquiatria. Departamento de Pedopsiquiatria, Centro Hospitalar do Porto. Portugal
  • Maria da Graça Rocha Fernandes Médica Especialista em Pedopsiquiatria. Assistente Graduada em Pedopsiquiatria. Departamento de Pedopsiquiatria, Centro Hospitalar do Porto. Portugal.

Keywords:

Suicide, adolescent, death, attempted.

Abstract

Objective: To report on a teen suicide pact between two teenage girls and its integration with the literature. Case
Description: Two friends (13 and 14 years old) were referred to the Urgent Care Unit (UCU), Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Department, Oporto, Portugal, after attempting double suicide through deliberately ingesting several drugs at
the home of one of them. Comments: Suicide pacts in early adolescence seem to be very different from those involving
adults: less well prepared, they are consequently less lethal, usually agreed between same-gender friends with similar life
stories. In this case study, there was no evidence of family disruptions or maternal deprivation in childhood, as suggested
earlier. Future investigations are needed to confi rm the characteristics of teen suicide pacts, defi ning risk factors and seeking
more effective prevention.

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Published

2016-02-25

How to Cite

Dias Moreira, F. M., Machado de Aguiar, I. G. e C., da Fonseca, M. da L., Soares Pangaio, N. M., & Rocha Fernandes, M. da G. (2016). Morrer juntas? Pacto de suicídio na adolescência - Relato de caso: Die together? Suicide pact in adolescence - Case report. Adolescência E Saúde, 13(1), 84–87. Retrieved from https://adolescenciaesaude.com/index.php/aes/article/view/562

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2016): Vol. 13 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Case Reports

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