Factors Associated with Cocaine Consumption among Suicide Victim

Luisa Caroline Costa Abreu, Sarah dos Santos Conceição, Delmason Soares Barbosa de Carvalho, Ana Cristina Machado, Amanda Oliveira Lyrio, Elivan Silva Souza, Cauê Silva Souza, Paulo José dos Santos de Matos, Josicélia Estrela Tuy Batista, Juliano de Andrade Gomes, Alexandre Marcelo Hintz, Priscilla Perez da Silva Pereira, Simone Seixas da Cruz, Isaac Suzart Gomes-Filho and Ana Claudia Morais Godoy Figueiredo ()
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Luisa Caroline Costa Abreu: Health Sciences Teaching and Research Foundation’s, Brasília 70710-907, Federal District, Brazil
Sarah dos Santos Conceição: Department of Health of University of Brasilia, Brasília 70910-900, Federal District, Brazil
Delmason Soares Barbosa de Carvalho: Department of Public Health of the Federal District, Brasília 70390-125, Federal District, Brazil
Ana Cristina Machado: Department of Public Health of the Federal District, Brasília 70390-125, Federal District, Brazil
Amanda Oliveira Lyrio: Department of Health of University of Brasilia, Brasília 70910-900, Federal District, Brazil
Elivan Silva Souza: Department of Health of University of Brasilia, Brasília 70910-900, Federal District, Brazil
Cauê Silva Souza: Health Sciences Teaching and Research Foundation’s, Brasília 70710-907, Federal District, Brazil
Paulo José dos Santos de Matos: Department of Epidemiology, Federal University of Recôncavo of Bahia, Santo Antônio de Jesus 44430-622, Bahia, Brazil
Josicélia Estrela Tuy Batista: Department of Health, Feira de Santana State University, Feira de Santana 44036-900, Bahia, Brazil
Juliano de Andrade Gomes: Department of Police of the Federal District, Brasília 70610-907, Federal District, Brazil
Alexandre Marcelo Hintz: Department of Health, Feira de Santana State University, Feira de Santana 44036-900, Bahia, Brazil
Priscilla Perez da Silva Pereira: Department of Nursing, Federal University of Rondônia, Porto Velho 76801-059, Rondônia, Brazil
Simone Seixas da Cruz: Department of Epidemiology, Federal University of Recôncavo of Bahia, Santo Antônio de Jesus 44430-622, Bahia, Brazil
Isaac Suzart Gomes-Filho: Department of Health, Feira de Santana State University, Feira de Santana 44036-900, Bahia, Brazil
Ana Claudia Morais Godoy Figueiredo: Department of Public Health of the Federal District, Brasília 70390-125, Federal District, Brazil

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-10

Abstract: Cocaine use is an increasingly frequent event, especially in young people, and can cause irreversible consequences, such as suicide. To evaluate the factors associated with cocaine use in the moments preceding to suicide. This is a population-based, cross-sectional, and analytical study conducted in the Brazilian Federal District by researchers from the Department of Health and the Civil Police Institute of Criminalistics. All people who died due to suicide in 2018 were included in the survey. Cocaine use was considered the dependent variable, and robust Poisson regression was performed to estimate the crude and adjusted prevalence ratios and their respective population confidence intervals. In 2018, 12,157 deaths were recorded, of which suicide accounted for 1.56% of all deaths. It was observed that being between 25 and 44 years old, male, and under the influence of alcohol or cannabis, had a strong positive association with cocaine consumption among suicide victims. Males, people with black skin, with lower level of education, with employment, and who were under the effect of the use of cannabis and/or alcohol in the previous hours of death had a higher propensity to consume cocaine immediately before suicide, with a moderate to strong magnitude of prevalence ratio. The findings of this research indicated the need for monitoring, by health services, of people most vulnerable to suicide through the consumption of psychoactive substances.

Keywords: suicide; cocaine; death certificates; information systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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