Psychosocial Factors and their Relationship whit Suicide Risk in Health Students

Introduction: The suicide phenomenon is presented as a public health challenge of high incidence that increased by multiple factors with consequences that transcend the affected individual confines. The objective was to determine the relationship between psychosocial factors and suicide risk in health students. Materials and methods: Quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive-correlational study in 152 medical and nursing students at a public university. The Goldberg Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Emotional Fatigue Scale and the sisco inventory were used to measure academic stress and the Okasha Scale for Suicidality. Results: There is considerable prevalence of psychosocial factors, depression (85.5%), anxiety (78.3%), emotional exhaustion (73%) and academic stress (78.9%). Suicide risk turned out to be mostly mild (71.7%) but significantly related to psychosocial factors (p ≤ .01). Conclusion: Exist an association network in social, psycho emotional and scholarly character that configure the risk suicide. The identification, understanding and approach of the related aspects create the guideline to establish strategies directed towards an integral care in health students, as well as the implementation of interventions that prevent and/or decrease the suicide risk.