AEGiS-10IAC: Suicidal risk on AIDS patients: importance of psychological intervention.

10th International AIDS Conference


Yokohama, Japan — Aug 7-12, 1994

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Suicidal risk on AIDS patients: importance of psychological intervention.

Int Conf AIDS 1994 Aug 7-12; 10:394 (abstract no. PD0756)
Zomitta M, Bastos C, de Siqueira VH; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the importance of immediate psychological evaluation in AIDS patients first hospitalization, when risks for suicide are bigger.

METHODS: Interviews were performed with 60 patients on first hospitalization and their families. They lasted 1h 30m using support therapy technique.

RESULTS: Interviews with the therapist worked as a continent of anxieties brought by the patient, trust in the therapist enabled patients to seek their own ways to solutions, hope an value reframing. From the 60 patients interviewed, 45 (75%) were in first time hospitalization. And 15 (25%) were in real suicidal threat. All of them were rescued from suicide. From the population served by the therapist, 2 patients that had not been evaluated accomplished suicide. DISCUSSION/

CONCLUSION: This experience shows that first moment psychological intervention is very important in suicide prevention.

Keywords: AEGIS, Mental Disorders, Risk, Suicide, Risk Factors, Hospitalization, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Interpersonal Relations, Risk Assessment, Neoplasms, Human, nursing, psychology, methods, ICA10KWDaegis,mentaldisorders,risk,suicide,riskfactors,hospitalization,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,interpersonalrelations,riskassessment,neoplasms,human,nursing,psychology,methods,ica10
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