Strategies adopted by emergency services in the face of attempted suicide

Abstract

The aim was to identify the strategies adopted by the emergency services to prevent further suicide attempts. Integrative literature review, in the periods from 2015 to 2019. The SciELO database and the indexed data in the VHL were used as search source, being: LILACS, BDENF and Medline. For the analysis of the data included in the study, we opted to use Bardin's content analysis. 13 articles were included. After the analysis, four main categories emerged in the face of action strategies in the face of suicide, namely: telephone follow-up; crisis card; outpatient, face-to-face referral, Psychosocial Care Centers, Basic Health Unit or psychiatric hospitalization and intervention; Use of severity scales to assess risk of attempted suicide. It is possible to note the absence of strategies and even the difficulty of research and studies in Brazilian territory, leading to inquiries about the strategies used in other countries as measures of intervention and prevention of suicide in Brazil. The strategies described in the present studies, affirm success in the face of new suicide attempts, being pertinent to the use and study of them to be applied in Brazil, contributing to the health area and in favor of the reduction of the suicide attempt.